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A University of Missouri-Columbia journalism student writes of her personal experience at the National Thanksgiving Turkey ceremony Monday in Washington, D.C.

A University of Missouri-Columbia journalism student writes of her personal experience at the National Thanksgiving Turkey ceremony Monday in Washington, D.C.

Catherine, a marketing consultant from Ridgefield, Connecticut, and  Shane, an attorney from Bethesda, met their first week as freshmen at Notre Dame, where they were introduced by the woman they asked years later to be their matron of honor. Their friendship grew, a romantic relationship started to brew, and eventually they went on their first date, where the newly 21-year-old Shane was legally able to order some bubbly. They dated for five years before Shane proposed at a scenic overlook by ...