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Like all good romances, Katie Clewett and Mark Mills’s started with an online statistics class. Or, at least, that’s what Mark remembers. Katie, predictably, remembers more accurately that she first met Mark during a review session for a different class about books, so he was distracted. In due time, Mark realized that Katie was really good at statistics and that she had really pretty eyes (not necessarily in that order). After a series of successful statistics studies (one of them needed help with homework, and I’ll let you guess which), the two started to spend a lot more time together with friends, everything from dorm room movie nights to football games. They even went swimming together three times, but never called it a date. However, both of them were coming to realize in their own ways that they had found someone special. Katie, of course, knew all along. Mark was drawn by Katie’s gentle manner, brilliant perception, warm voice, and how you could tell she had a beautiful smile even behind a mask. Katie was enamored by Mark’s roguish wit, dashing charm, and gleaming dimples. Even still, nothing could have prepared Mark for the moment he looked in Katie’s eyes and thought “she’s the one I’ve been praying for.” On November 20th, 2020, they made it official–which Katie found out when Mark introduced her to his mom as his girlfriend, naturally. After sitting on just about every bench they could find and only breaking one, helping each other through life (including wins, losses, long distance, letters, sharing COVID-19, explorations, injuries, injuries from explorations, interests, dreams, families, and one-sided production of misplaced items), they decided they wanted to keep doing that for the rest of their lives. Mark proposed on December 15th, 2022 at the Carleen Bright Arboretum, which was a great excuse to spend some time around trees and hide love letters in the mulch. On May 20th, 2024, after three and a half years together, Mark and Katie are extremely excited to continue their journey and are extraordinarily grateful that you have joined them along the way! And this time, they are ready to reject the null hypothesis and say “I do!”** *"You know there's no such thing as 100% confidence interval?" "Yeah, that's the point!" **"What, the null hypothesis is that we would break up?" "Yeah, and the alternate hypothesis is that we're madly in love!" "We can go with it."