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Sorry. over to you. a heart warming story of two lifelong friends. you have a high school quarterback, ben who promised his childhood friend in the fourth day that someday he would take her to the prom. seven years later, he fulfilled that promise. even though they were at different hoolz and surprised her with a promposal. there use it. joining us now is ben and his prom date mary. welcome to both of you. i love the picture. thanks so much for joining us this morning. ben, bring us back to fourth grade. what prompted you and mary to make that pact? tell us what it was like. it was nice. we have always been friends. so it was really easy to ask her to go to prom with me. in fourth grade, you were thinking about the prom. what prompted that thought to go through your head? i went with my mom to my cousin s prom and that s where it started. i asked her if people like mary went to the prom. and so i decided that i wanted ....
To take her to prom when i got to high school. wow. mary, did you remember that? yes. were you hoping that ben remembered that? yes. wow. and were you surprised he did remember that? yes. yeah. so how did you reconnect even though you ended up moving away from each other? how did you reconnect, ben? we were connected after one of my football games when we played her school that night. and afterwards, we got together and took a picture and we reconnected from there. ben, what is so special about mary? mary is the coolest person ever. she s so easy to get along with. and she s just so nice. mary, tell me about ben. he s nice. was he always this good of an athlete, did you know he was going to be a big football player? yeah. he ended up doing just that. ....
Ben, what was your friends and families reaction to showing this loyalty to your childhood friend? they really liked it. my mom always tells me that she s the most proud she s ever been of me. you always had this, your mom says you had this quality about you. said this is the proudest she s been of you. where does that come from? just from family members being around the right people and learning what s wrong and right. you went to the junior prom with ben. what was it like going with the quarterback of the football team? it was fun. it s great. ben, best of luck this year. thanks so much for sharing your story. mary, thanks so much too for the story and the pictures. and thanks for sharing your story with america. no problem. all right. three minutes before the bottom of the hour. remember the terrifying scene? ....