# @jacksonstateu on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Bf4L4HiD3vq
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/15114297-jacksonstateu-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2018-03-03T22:30:43.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Jackson State U. (@JacksonStateU) — https://gondola.cc/JacksonStateU

## Caption

#JSULove - "DiAngelo and I met on the campus of JSU as members of the Sonic Boom of The South Marching Band in the fall of 2009. As band members, we easily spent hundreds of hours together, however, only within the context of the group and never as anything more than associates. The following semester, we grew close and developed a genuine friendship.  About halfway through the spring semester of 2010, DiAngelo reached out to me via Facebook to recruit me to sing the chorus of a song for a music project he was working on. The goal of the project was to 'capture the day-to-day experience of being a member of the Sonic Boom' ...or so he claimed.  Seeing an opportunity, I agreed. It seemed like the perfect chance to spend time together since DiAngelo was completely oblivious that I had a crush on him!

During the fall of 2010, after almost a year of being friends, I finally gathered the nerve to tell him I was interested. Immediately after that text, he called me for the first time and the rest was history. After I graduated, I moved back to Chicago to pursue my PhD in Industrial Organizational Psychology and we continued to date long distance until 2015. 
During Homecoming of that year, DiAngelo orchestrated the perfect proposal for two former band members which included not only the full marching band, but also a serenade from DiAngelo’s fraternity brothers: The Pi Nu Chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity of America. I was completely surprised and at a loss for words.

Right after the proposal, he moved to Chicago, and we recently got married on September 2, 2017. Of all the things I gained during my time at JSU, I'm so thankful that God allowed me to meet and marry my best friend!" - Amber (Class of 2013), talking about her marriage to DiAngelo (Class of 2012). Congratulations, Amber and DiAngelo! #Jackson_RYS18

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