For this week’s story of #HowWeMetAtRU, we have Sandy Bergelson and Gerry Pomper ✨ Sandy and Gerry both met at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Rutgers University in the early 2000s. In 2014, both were enrolled in Rutgers Professor George Schroepfer’s modern Japanese literature course. Pomper had shared how it stirred thoughts of his wife’s death. That evening, Bergelson called him “Sandy said she had a different slant. I said, why don’t we meet and have lunch to talk about it,” Pomper recalled. They met at a Japanese restaurant, and afterward, Pomper invited Bergelson to his home for dessert. He introduced her to Amie, his Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. “Amie fell in love with her, and she with Amie,” Pomper said. On their first “heavy” date, as Pomper called it, the couple saw a revival of The King and I at Lincoln Center in Manhattan. Lyrics from “A Puzzlement” would provide the inscription on their wedding bands: His reads, “Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera” and hers,...