Our Story Begins in Queens
The winter of 2014/2015 was a particularly harsh and icy one. When the first nice day of the year came on April 18, everyone in Queens was ready to come out of hibernation. I woke up early and was ready to take my bike out for a long ride. My friend Jim was game, and the two of us rode from Queens, down into Brooklyn, over to Manhattan, up the Hudson River, crosstown, and back to Queens. We had a celebratory beer at his place and agreed to meet up later on that day at the beer garden.
That afternoon, I arrived at the beer garden to see that almost all of my friends were out enjoying the beautiful weather that day. After a while, I sat down next to my friend Jackie and was introduced to a gorgeous friend of hers. Naturally, I had no delusion that her friend would be interested in someone like me. So Emily and I just talked like people do about nothing and everything. As the night went on, we kept ending up back talking with each other. Finally, I worked up the courage to awkwardly ask if she, “maybe, would want to hang out again, not tonight, some other time, with just me, like a date…” Luckily for me, she said yes.
The very next Saturday was the day, and the Central Park Zoo was the place. We walked around, saw the sea lions get fed, penguins dance, a bear swim, and a snow leopard hide. She seemed to have a good time, so I asked if she was hungry, and we walked across the park and got dinner. We took a cab back to Astoria and proceeded to go on many more dates in Astoria and Long Island City that spring and summer.
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Emily & Patrick’s New York Map
Our Wedding
A Nuptial Mass was celebrated at Our Lady of Perpetual Help in the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston on Friday, April 26th, 2019 at 4PM.
Emily & Patrick were married and the wedding and bride were beautiful.
The Basilica and Shrine of Our Lady of Perpetual Help was the site of the original Mission Church and it lends its name to the neighborhood. It is well over 100 years old, is 215 feet tall, and can be seen from adjacent neighborhoods like Brookline, where our reception with dinner and dancing took place at Alden Castle.
By all accounts the reception was a resounding success
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Emily & Patrick’s Boston Map
Our Story Continues
The rest of 2019 went pretty well for Emily and me. We enjoyed living the married life in NYC. We welcomed our new niece, Margaux, into the world. Emily’s sister Angela married Dominick, and we both got a new brother-in-law. We finally saw Hamilton on Broadway. Then in December, we welcome a little furry one into our home named Ginny.
Like most of us, 2020 hit pretty hard, but we were lucky enough to stay healthy. Even during the worst of COVID-19 in Queens, we managed to make it through. However, in late spring, events occurred that led us to decide to take our talents to Massachusetts. We had a short stay on the cape, thanks to our friend Chris. It gave us a chance to find a place to land, which ended up being Plymouth.
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