Julie Felice Marcus ’89 & Stephen Schwartz ’84
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The fall of 2017, I’m playing tennis with a woman I had only just met on the court. She’s quite good, so during a break between games, I ask about her tennis story. She says, “I played college tennis at a small school outside of Philadelphia.” My ears immediately perk up at that reference. So I say, “Funny, because I attended a small school outside of Philadelphia too! You don’t happen to be a Swattie?” The rest is history. We missed meeting each other at Swat by one year. But cosmic karma prevailed in the end.