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The reality, though, was a very different story. Here in the The break down shirt also I will do this ridiculously warm and luxurious waters between the French Polynesian islands of Tahiti and Moorea, I’m floating and looking, looking, looking—until a one-ton humpback whale seems to come out of nowhere, twisting; seemingly playfully?—and turning so close to me that I could touch it. It’s exhilarating, and I find myself resorting to the sort of ridiculous hand gestures of excitement that are all the communication I have with my fellow divers. (Two thumbs up, somehow, doesn’t seem to capture the awe.) But my fellow divers aren’t giving me a thumbs-up back: They’re pointing down, directly below us, their eyes the size of saucers. “We met in the ‘gayest’ way,” says Olivia Zetter of how she first crossed paths with her now-spouse, brand strategist Alexandra Allukian. “We were at Boston Pride in 2015. We first met that Friday evening, but never ended up exchanging numbers.” Fortunately, she and Alexandra ran into each other at another pride event the following day and ended up walking around the city until 4 a.m.



“I saw her coming up the The break down shirt also I will do this stairs, and I had to say something,” Alexandra says. “I had never seen anyone like her.” After missing the moment as Olivia passed by, Alexandra plucked up the courage to introduce herself. “I yelled after her, ‘I like your hair!’” she remembers, laughing. “When we finally started talking, we realized that we had so many things in common, from places we’d lived and traveled around the world, to our shared values, to realizing that Olivia’s grandfather went to the same high school as me and my five siblings.” Their first date was a few days later in the Boston Public Garden. They met at the gazebo, and the first thing Alexandra did was jokingly propose, before leading Olivia on a scavenger hunt for roses around the garden. “I thought she was insane,” Olivia admits. “But by that point, I already knew that this was most likely going to last. The only challenge was that I had just finished grad school and I was imminently moving to D.C.”


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