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How we met: Shane Nickels and Dhyana Coil

By Hailey Osterhaus

Thursday, October 22, 2009

From across the room at a party, Shane Nickels, Hutchinson graduate student, saw the girl he was told to never go near. His friends said she was a tease and if he chose to talk to her, he’d be making a mistake. All of their warnings were simply forgotten when Nickels and the mysterious girl, Dhyana Coil, 2008 graduate, instantly clicked.

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Testing the tease: Friends warned Shane Nickels, Hutchinson graduate student, away from Dhyana Coil, 2008 graduate. Nickels sparked a conversation anyway and they’ve now been together more than two years.

 Coil went to the party that night with no intention of meeting anyone. “I was feeling pretty jaded about love during the time when I met him as a result of being hurt a lot in the past,” Coil says. “I began to treat relationships like more of a game and a power play and be much more closed off.”

 But Nickels knew that there was something more to Coil and pursued her by asking her for a date at a hookah bar.

 The relationship seemed permanent the night KU won the championship. She had to work late and could only check up on the game on her computer. While she was slaving away at work, she misunderstood Nickels and thought she wasn’t invited to join him and his friends after the game … and then his phone died. “So he ran about 20 blocks across town to come find me and make me feel better and tell me of course I was invited and held my hand as we walked down to Mass. Street to celebrate,” Coil says.

 Soon, Coil and Nickels will be celebrating their two-and-a-half-year anniversary. “We’re really in it for the long haul,” Nickels says. “We’ve looked at engagement rings for fun, but we’re really happy where we are right now and we’re not rushing things.”

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