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"  When fashion blogger Leandra Medine (a.k.a. the Man Repeller, the name of her blog) announced her engagement through her website in December 2011, many of her readers were shocked to learn she even had a boyfriend. The quirky 23-year-old had long celebrated eccentric high fashion without regard to its appeal to the opposite sex, but that didn&amp;#039;t stop one suitor, 27-year-old UBS financier Abie Cohen, from calling six years ago. Though the pair first met at a Halloween party when Medine was attending Yeshiva Day School and Cohen was at New York University, the Internet proved instrumental. &amp;quot;Facebook was like our own personal JDate,&amp;quot; Medine jokes. &amp;quot;He saw a photo of me in an album of a friend of mine whom he was dating, and he friended me.&amp;quot; Many instant messages later, the two met for lunch at Via Quadronno, on the Upper East Side, and quickly started a relationship \u2014 but broke up the following fall. &amp;quot;It was just timing,&amp;quot; Cohen says. The pair couldn&amp;#039;t stay apart for long. They saw each other on and off for the next three years, until one day Cohen spotted Medine with another man. &amp;quot;He texted me, &amp;#039;That physically hurt,&amp;#039; &amp;quot; Medine says. &amp;quot;We got back together the next day.&amp;quot; In June, the couple shared their long-awaited I-do&amp;#039;s with 450 guests in a traditional Jewish ceremony at the St. Regis hotel. True to form, Medine wore a Marchesa gown, a custom-made Rebecca Minkoff motorcycle jacket, a peony and lily crown, and bedazzled platform Superga sneakers. She says, &amp;quot;Abie was expecting me to go a lot crazier, but I think I kept it very simple.&amp;quot;  Vera Wang Fall Fashion Week       "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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