Steve and Laura Weatherford never tire of telling their four kids the story of how they met — minus a few details.
The truth: Pops, then a top high school prospect from Terre Haute, Ind., was in town on his football recruiting visit and first laid eyes on his future bride at that must-stop Campustown landmark ... Joe’s Brewery.
“Every time we drive by the pub now,” says Steve (BS ’05), “we point out the window and tell our four kids: ‘That is the library where daddy and mommy met. Mommy was reading a book, and daddy was doing a science experiment on his liver.’”
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