[posted by Anna]
I didn’t know Luke very well, and I didn’t know Allison at all at the time, but Luke and I were in a horrible gen ed English class on Greek Mythology. It was a 300 person lecture class with essays every week and it was interminably boring. I was a freshman at CUA and I hated it. Luke and Anna Murray were upperclassmen at the time and I could tell from the first interaction how inseparable they were. I was pretty timid around them because of how self assured and confident they were, but they both went to great lengths to make me feel welcome and included me in their group study and mid-class conversations. One day, Luke started coming in with a duffel bag, and I didn’t ask why until one day when he went racing out of class with the bag and didn’t come back for a few minutes. When he walked back in, he said “false alarm!” to the relieved laughter of many in the class. I was surprised how many people he knew and how his energy seemed to be infectious to so many. After class he told me that he’d been walking around everywhere with this bag because his fiancé was pregnant and he needed to be ready to hop on a plane at any point. He had gotten a call and thought it was time but it turned out to be something else. I didn’t know him well, but I’ll never forget how happy and loving he looked when talking about Allison and how unbelievably excited he was for Lucy’s birth. There was never any doubt how much he loved them, so much so, that it was shining all over his face. It was a really beautiful moment.