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If you ask Will, their story began before college even started. His love blossomed for Lauren during the summer before their senior year of high school. He spotted Lauren at an ACT test, didn't talk to her, and went home and told his family that he saw the girl he was going to marry. Lauren became "ACT Girl" to him and his friends following that day. He never saw "ACT Girl" again. Finally, on the second day of college, he spotted "ACT Girl" again, but the first thing he did was ask her for the wifi password. If you ask Lauren, their story begins on the second day of college when Will asked "Ma'am what's the wifi password?" The following week, they were randomly assigned to be in a group project together in another class. Will was assigned as group leader and an ambitious young Lauren lead vicariously through him. She would constantly ask him when they were meeting up to work on this assignment, and Will would set a meeting. Eventually, only the two of them showed up to the meetings. To Lauren, this lead into a friendship. At the end of their group project, something told her to keep him around. The following spring, they officially started going on dates after Lauren asked Will to her sorority formal. Sooner rather than later, Lauren learned that she had been his "ACT Girl" all this time. The same June, they finally started officially dating and Will proposed a little over 2.5 years later in Hot Springs, AR.