The power couple: Claire and Rufus Barner, both 27Years together: Nine total, married four and a halfOccupations: He’s an attorney; she’s a project manager at Youth Outreach Services.
Claire: Rufus’s experience working at the public defender’s office fits in very well with my agency’s focus on alternatives to detention for juvenile offenders. We don’t talk about work every day, but we definitely have shared interests.
Who’s the better cook of the two?
Old College Try
In which Rufus recalls first meeting Claire (Looking for love at first sight? isawyou.chicagoreader.com)
Old College Try
When: September 18, 2004Where: 3rd Floor Max EastI saw a: WomanI am a: Man
You have long brown hair, nice sleek shoulders, wearing black tank top and a long billowing skirt. You were talking on the phone with someone who made you smile and I had the privilege of viewing that. You had great green eyes and glanced at me quickly. I have short black hair, actually braided in cornrows, brown eyes. I was wearing a shirt that was two sizes too big and I had the look of a kid lost in a soda shop. I waved a hello to you although you may not have seen it. I live in the room across the hall from you. Message me if you remember me, I wanted to invite you out to lunch or something, but am a bit shy.
Claire: Probably me, because I’d get all the movie trivia right. If all the questions were about soccer and Dr. Who, Rufus would dominate.
Claire: Rufus likes to sing 90s pop in a really high-pitched, tone-deaf voice. And I mean bad 90s pop. Like “Email My Heart” by Britney Spears.
Aay Preston-Myint and Colin Dickson‘s first date “didn’t just have a third wheel, it had 20.”
Together for 17 years, Lynn Rondeau and Katy Bird are the type of people who’ll parallel park your car for you.
Eleanor Spiess-Ferris and Umberto Tosi are “male and female versions of the same creative spirit.”
