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纽约婚礼见闻（一）

作者：杨思晴

　　For those of you who don't know, Erik and I met in college at Bucknell University one of the first week's of school when we were both Freshman.It turned out that we both lived in the same dorm building, though Erik was on the 3rd floor, which was for students that requested to live on a “substance free” hall and I lived on the 4th floor, which was for students that did NOT request to live on a substance free hall. As my parents are in the room right now, of course most of my time was spent studying and preparing for the hard courseload that college threw at me... but for the couple minutes a day when I wasn't studying, most of my days hanging out with Erik, Joel Toluba who is also in the wedding party today and the rest of the hall were spent doing what college kids do... watching movies, having a catch, ordering a pizza at midnight and just hanging out... what I didn't realize or fully appreciate at the time though, is that the bets we would make over Nintendo or going to Hoss's, a local steakhouse, and rotating who's birthday it was that night to get the free cake and get embarrassed by 10 waiters singing to you, would lead to lifelong friendships and many, many stories.
　　I think it was over the summer and winter breaks, when both Erik and I would return to Long Island and meet up for a movie at the Commack multiplex, or make a couple bets over a round of golf at Sunken Meadow, when we started to feel more like brothers than close friends.During college, we roomed together our junior and senior years, joined the same fraternity, even studied abroad in the same country... and then later moving into the city together when we were both just starting our careers and our lives.
　　After living together for a year, I fell in love with living in New York and ended up staying in Manhattan for 7 years, just leaving last month as my girlfriend and I are taking a next step together in our own relationship just as Ling and Erik are taking another step together today. Whereas Erik became tired of paying $1200 a month and sleeping in a room literally 7x9 overlooking a brick wall on the fifth floor of a walkup building and he decided to move to Jersey City.Being a social person, Erik had no problem making new friends at Avalon Cove, and it was there that he met friends like Andrew Hiner, Henrick Mose and Yoanna Koleva, who are also in the wedding party.
　　Erik lived in a four bedroom apartment and I remember that he took it on as his responsibility to find a new roommate when one was leaving.At first I didn't understand why he would want to take on this responsibility with no help from his other roommates... but after he explained to me that it meant that he would only choose an attractive, single girl, I started to understand his motives a lot better... And it was through this process that he met and picked Ling to be the new roommate.I still remember the first day that Ling moved in... it was a hot, summer day in June and Ling brought her entire life in the back of family friend, Drew Sikora's truck.Always a friendly person who strives to make situations comfortable for new people, Erik immediately offered his help to Drew and Ling to help move her things into the apartment.
　　

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