Research and the Whittingtons
I was privledged a few nights ago to hear directly from an all-female group of researchers about new important data they had just finished gathering. These women are considered the authorities in their field, so needless to say, their presentation was interesting. I'm sure that their analysis and insight will make our country and our world a better place. Who where these scholars? A group of Senior Sorority girls from MSU and Ole Miss. What was their topic of study? Marriage More specifically, they were focussed on high school sweetheart matrimony. Suprise Suprise.
These girls (who shall remain nameless because I'm scared they'll hurt me) argued that high school sweethearts change so much during college that it is almost impossible for them to stay together, and that the strain of this phenomena becomes even harsher if the sweethearts attend different schools. The scholary sorority sweeties concluded that high school sweethearts that attend college together have 1 in 600 chance of going through with tieing the knot, and that 1 in 800 high school couples that attend different univerisities will one day know each other the way Adam knew Eve.
These statics, like most numbers, would normally go in my right ear out my left. But it just so happened that the next day my old roomate Preston Whittington was meeting his high school sweetheart, Anna Prevost, at the altar. So I took interest in what the research showed, but I was glad yesterday when Preston and Anna beat the odds and exchanged their vows.
Wedding highlights include an incredible combinations of a string quartet, fluet, organ, piano, and a harp music and watching groomsmen Patrick Kelso have to walk by himself in front of a couple hundred people. At the reception, there was a plethora of good food including black-eyed pea and bacon quice and skewered chilled prime rib and shrimp. I didn't even get around to trying the cake.
Preston and Anna have been through a lot in their nearly six years of dating, including long periods of seperation since they attended different schools. Through it all they have grown together, and I know they will be happy together for a long time. They are two wonderful, bright, talented people. Preston and Anna, Rants and Cravings wishes you all the best.