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B.I.O: He Blinded Her With Science

Leah Barnum, Edward BennettLEAH BARNUM was chatting at an anthropology conference when her bored conversation partner said 'You use words I do not understand. Why don't you talk to that guy?'" "That guy" was Edward Bennett. "The first thing I noticed about him was that he was inexplicably fascinated with my history of taking medicinal spirulina," a form of microalgae, says Leah. "And YES, we are big nerds." Then they hit the bars for karaoke. "I finished a triple of some shady whiskey and paraded through "Total Eclipse of the Heart," says Edward. Two months after their first date (at Komi or Citronelle, depending on who you ask), he proposed.

Leah, 27, is an evaluation coordinator. Edward, 29, is a Ph.D candidate. They live in D.C. and will marry May 23 in Davis, Calif., with a second reception in Chicago.

Written by Express contributor Rachel Kaufman

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