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María Carla Chicuén ’10 and Antonio may have grown up just blocks away in Havana, Cuba, but it took a Harvard invention to bring them together...
Antonio, a few years older, was pursuing a master’s degree in digital systems at the Polytechnic University José Antonio Echeverría in Havana. But he still found time to help Chicuén with her thesis research. And, of course, they found time to spend together...
Their first date came just a few days after Chicuén arrived. The pair strolled down el Malecón, a historic and picturesque esplanade along the Havana coast. Next came dinner at a restaurant with an ocean view. And then they danced the night away. “That first date confirmed that we were meant to be together. We just enjoyed each other so much, and the mere presence of the other was enough to feel happy,” Antonio wrote...
...later that summer, they hiked together to the top of the tallest mountain in Cuba. When they arrived back in Havana, Antonio proposed—a moment the groom-to-be described as “completely spontaneous, between smiles and tears...
...summer, Chicuén traveled back to Cambridge to start senior year, but she’s returned to Cuba every month since to see her fiancé. And with the fortuitous change of Harvard’s calendar, she got to spend a full month in Havana with Antonio as she completed work on her thesis...