How we met

By Jessie Fetterling

Thursday, February 7, 2008

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Christy Tuohy and Alex Eshelerenner

Alex Eshelerenner, Dallas, Texas, senior, may be a big reason why Christy Tuohy, Dallas, Texas, junior, decided to come to KU. The couple has been dating for about three years, and they first met when Tuohy was trying to decide which college she wanted to go to.

Eshelerenner was a freshman at KU when Tuohy decided to come visit. Her brother had set it up so that his friend, Eshelerenner, could show his little sister around Lawrence and around the campus. She did not remember him from the high school parties that her brother would throw, and, in fact, she had thought that he was someone else before they first met.

When she arrived KU, though, he made quite the impression. Instead of staying with a friend, she spent the whole weekend with him, including a pretend date in the downstairs cafeteria at Naismith Hall. “He acted like a best friend would,” Tuohy said.

After that, they started talking on the phone, and by that summer, they were dating.

 

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