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Oscar Ortiz

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Carol Verdugo

#Alovelikeours

July 19, 2026

Monroe, CT
104 days104 d7 hours7 h52 minutes52 min56 seconds56 s

A Love Like Ours

First comes school, then comes a Moscow mule and marriage.

We met in the Fall of 2014 at our alma mater, Manhattan College, (Manhattan University, lol). Just two first generation college student's excited to embark in our academic journey not knowing that we had just met our soulmate in one another. We went through our college experience remaining friends, talking in the Commons, campus library and living it up in our respective "Greek" organization. The years went by and we remained friends, always checking in on each other and seeing how they other is doing. Finally in September of 2021, we met up and went out for lunch at one of our favorite spots, Amity. A quick lunch then became a prolonged meal that turned into an early dinner, flew through Happy Hour and then ran through Trivia night. Getting a quick bite to eat led to us closing the bar. That night a spark of curiosity and care lit inside of us and the rest became history.