How we met

By Gina Souders

Thursday, April 3, 2008

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Larisa Jaquith and Stephen Scott

They first noticed each other in their high school marching band class with shy glances and timid smiles. Stephen Scott, Topeka senior, thought she was cute and Larisa Jaquith, Topeka sophomore, says he made her laugh. “That’s always been the No. 1 thing I look for in a guy,” Jaquith says.

After finally mustering up the courage, Scott asked her on a date, but she couldn’t go. Her mom was uneasy about her little girl—a sophomore in high school—going out on the town with an older boy. Fortunately, the Sadie Hawkins dance was coming up, which allows the girl to ask the boy out. Jaquith asked Scott to the dance and devised a plan to tell her mother she was simply planning to meet up with friends at the dance. It’s been more than four years and the two are still together. “I feel the most comfortable around her. She’s my best friend,” Scott says. “I know that sounds cliché, but it’s true.”

 

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