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He Wore a Ben Folds Five T-Shirt.

He wore a Ben Folds Five t-shirt.

I didn't even have a reason to stay in the marching band for a second year, but I did it anyway. If I hadn't, I never would have met the ginger boy in the Ben Folds Five t-shirt. I knew he and I would be friends.

Here we are 10 years later- happily married and in love. He continues to surprise me from day to day, and I haven't stopped laughing since that fateful August day.

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