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Well, hi, this is Michael. Hi, this is Betsy. And, uh, we were both at Jones. I was the class in 9998. So starting off tradition that I think mattered a lot, especially when I look back and is meaningful. I think about a lot of how our

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friends took care of each other, most of our stories and we're going to tell one in a minute involve people drinking, uh, usually a lot. But one of the things I always thought was really great about Rice when we were there and I hope still continues

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for the students at Rice to this day was there'd always be someone who was, was, was not indulging or at least not indulging as much as the others who would be looking out for everyone else and the group and noticing when someone was having too much

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and when they needed to stop or when we needed to get somewhere to get them taken care of. And I think that kind of friendship where you're all looking out for each other and you're all taking care of each other. That's one of the most meaningful

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things to me. So I thought we'd tell a story about, uh, Betsy and I, early in our relationship we've been together over 25 years now, married for 22 of them. And, uh, one about what, a year-ish after less than a year after we started dating

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was Esperanza. And, uh, Betsy had this very nice, very beautiful dress. I still have a picture of her, uh, wearing that dress. They keep on my desk to this day and she had a really nice pair of shoes going with it. Perfect black heels, gorgeous. They

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fit you just perfectly beautiful. And so, uh, the Esperanza was over at the Natural History Museum and, uh, we had, uh, gone to the new Computer Science building and had a picnic in the atrium, uh, for dinner with a bunch of our friends and we had

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several bottles of wine during that dinner. And, uh, we didn't stay very long at the dance because by the time we got there, we were both kind of woozy on our feet and we got back on the shuttle early and, uh, headed back to have back

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to Jones and we were walking down, uh, Virgin's walk and somewhere along like the, you know, effort of getting back to our room. Uh, what was the heels that didn't have a back? And so I stepped out of my, one of my shoes and you were

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just kept walking and I remember looking back and going my shoe, my shoe and you kept dragging me down the walk and you didn't stop. So I couldn't get my shoes. You keep going forward. So I ended up getting to your room with just one shoe,

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which then stayed in my room for months. There was just this one lonely black heel uh in my room and we sent out multiple pleas at that point, cabinet meetings, announcements, all sorts of things asking for a black shoe that was found on virgins. The Jones

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email list served back in the day. This is all we had for mass communication. And so finally, after a couple of months, I got tired of this random black shoe just sitting in my room. And so I just threw it out the window and it landed

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on the covered walkway. And not five minutes later, my phone rings because our friend Gazelle lived in the, the two stories down and, uh, she called my room. She's like Michael Michael. I found Betsy's shoe. It's on the walkway outside my room. But it was sadly,

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it was the one that we had just thrown out. Never found the shoe, never found the shoe. That shoe never got a better one, but you got me. All right. That's our story. Thanks for listening.