Kandis Guice and Andrew Boone pose at the Collonade Center where they met when cast as the leads in Beauty & the BeastEverybody loves a good love story. But in the age of online dating, might those touching tales of chance romance and love at first sight become a thing of the past? Not just yet. Except in these face-to-face love stories, it was hardly love at first sight or second or third. Still, the moral of the story remains the same: In the end, true love triumphs.
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Shellina Blevins is a non-romantic. Her husband Rickie, on the other hand, is as sentimental as they come.
While the two fall at opposite ends of the romance spectrum, they share a passion for all things fandom: comic books, action figures, video games and Bruce Campbell, cult film actor, director and author best known for his role in the Evil Dead series.
The couple met over 15 years ago, in their early 20s, when they both worked at Hamilton Place mall: Shellina at Natural Wonders and Rickie at Game Stop. One day, on her lunch break, she wandered into Game Stop looking for female figures from The Legend of Dragoon, a role-playing video game. The store didn’t have any on display, but Rickie went into the back and managed to dig a couple up for her.