How We Met

Lyndse Bortnick, Kansas City, Kan., freshman, met her boyfriend Pete Hanes, Kansas City, Kan., freshman, in seventh grade at an ice skating mixer. Bortnick says that she had heard that he liked her and then they skated together during couples skate. After that they went on one date their freshman year of high school on Valentine’s Day. But it wasn’t until they were on spring break in Vail, Colo., that the two began dating. Bortnik and Hanes have been together now for four years.

 

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