The summer of 2012: interning at Gemvara, a customizable jewelry company started by a Babson alum, Mary endlessly flirted with Rich who picked up none of the cues. Mary worked up the courage to ask Rich out but was rebuffed. Rich eventually made a move after losing a bet with the maid of honor, and finally understood what was going on. He invited Mary to a Red Sox game the following week, little did she know it was a Yankees-Red Sox game and Rich was a die-hard NY fan. Once there, he asked Mary to be his girlfriend and not knowing how to gently refuse and maintain working with him for the rest of the summer, she reluctantly agreed. Over the following weeks, Rich wore her down with his quiet, dry humor and washboard abs so that by the end of summer, she really was (and still is) smitten.