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Brad and Kasey
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How they met:
It's the classic ranch-girl-from-Montanameets-Michigan-boy tale...
Brad and Kasey met in the fall of 2008, when she moved to Michigan for medical school. Brad was a second year medical student at Michigan State University, and they met through mutual friends. They became good friends, spending time together golfing, playing basketball, going to Michigan State sporting events, and attending chili cook-offs. But it wasn't until one year later, on August 28, 2009, when they had their first date! Even though Brad and Kasey met in East Lansing, the town they where they truly fell in love is beautiful Traverse City, Michigan. Kasey was assigned to do her 3rd and 4th year medical school rotations there, and luckily Brad was able to schedule most of his fourth year rotations there as well. They were able to be together and balance their education with fun activities such a wine tasting, beachhopping, snowshoeing, and exploring northern Michigan. In true Brad-and-Kasey spirit, they took their first "vacation" together over Christmas 2009 to an under-served hospital in Malawi, Africa. It was there that the tradition of their "vacations" together was born: sleeping under mosquito nets and not having running water or electricity! Since that time, they have traveled to Thailand, where they slept on bamboo mats in the jungle without electricity or running water, and most recently to Ecuador where they slept in a mountain hut at 15,000 feet without, you guessed it, electricity or running water! They loved every minute of it! In 2011, Dr. Bradley Kasavana graduated from medical school and was accepted to an obstetrics and gynecology residency at Metro Health Hospital in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Luckily, Kasey was able to schedule many of her fourth year rotations in Grand Rapids as well, but they did
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