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Your other a few times,” remembers Christine Meyer, before he left on a planned driving trip to Greece with some friends from Los Angeles. But Carl Meyer quickly realized he didn’t want to be with the boys… he wanted to be with Christine. Using nearly his last bit of money, he bought a ticket from Greece to Paris, where he knew Christine was spending part of her break at her grandmother’s apartment. He sent a letter to her parents’ home in Bonn. “It said something like ‘I’m coming back…I miss you. Meet me in the Eiffel Tower at noon,’” said Christine. Unfortunately, she didn’t receive the note because she was at her family’s country home in central France. Meanwhile, Carl, short on cash after purchasing Eiffel Tower tickets two days in a row, knocked on Christine’s grandmother’s door and learned she would return to Paris the following day. “He came back, I was there, and basically we’ve been together ever since.” The couple spent the remainder of the summer traveling throughout Europe in a beat up old car. They agreed that she would join him in the U.S. when he returned in the fall to start school. “I earned some money for the airline ticket and came here in
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AFTER THE ceremony, the Meyers led a procession through the village to her family’s home in central France.
October,” said Christine. “I still remember walking into his family’s home. We eventually bought it from his mother and still live there to-
day.” Married for 38 years, Carl, an architect, and Christine, a marriage and family therapist, have three grown children.