They exchanged numbers during fall of freshman year at Tufts, before watching The Room with friends (known as the Citizen Kane of bad movies). Julia asked Schuyler out for coffee the next day when he walked her back to her dorm. On her way to meet him, her shiny new boots tripped her, and she thought she'd broken her knee. When the EMTs arrived, they asked him if he wanted to accompany her to the emergency room. While there were a thousand other things to do with a Sunday evening, he chose to spend it with her. One thing led to another, and precisely four years and eleven months later, he asked her to marry him.