# @rutgersu on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2024-04-04T21:44:49.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Rutgers University (@RutgersU) — https://gondola.cc/RutgersU

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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, “and so forth.” While Bergelson officially moved in with Pomper in 2017 when she sold her house, she has ng in his Highland Park home since 2015, when she cared for him after he slipped on ice and injured his arm. 

Pomper proposed last September, just two months before they wed. “We just decided to be with each other the rest of our lives,” he said. “I wanted her to be with me as long as we can breathe, learn, and love.“

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