How we met

By Gina Souders

Thursday, January 31, 2008

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Even though they went to the same high school, it was an accident that they ever met. Sonja Combest, Baldwin City, Kan., senior, describes herself as a shy high school freshman, and she was only on the wrestling tournament charter bus because of her friend’s crush on a wrestler. But when high school senior Christopher Eichhorn, graduate, turned around in his seat and asked to borrow Combest’s Sugar Ray CD, she was glad she had agreed to tag along. They talked for hours that night, but didn’t stay in contact. It wasn’t until months later that they met again at a party and exchanged e-mails.

“I knew I was going to marry him,” Combest says. “I knew as soon as I got off that bus. He didn’t know it, but I did.”

They eventually went out on a date, and recently celebrated their four-year anniversary as a couple.

Things between Combest’s friend and the wrestler never worked out.

 

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