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Two weeks later, Abby and Jameson connected<br />
through FaceTime and talked for seven hours.<br />
Jameson lived on the coast at the time and Abby<br />
was in Southaven, so traditional dating was a bit<br />
difficult, but they met for dinner twice and talked<br />
regularly. Jameson officially asked Abby to be his<br />
girlfriend one week before their freshman year at<br />
Mississippi College began.<br />
It didn’t take long for Jameson to know that<br />
Abby was the girl for him. “When I was in high<br />
school, my youth minister challenged us to make<br />
a list of everything we were looking for in a spouse,”<br />
Jameson says. “I actually made that list, and Abby<br />
was everything I could have ever wanted. Even<br />
better, she has qualities I didn’t have on the list,<br />
but should have. She is the perfect complement<br />
to me, she radiates joy, and she is a great example<br />
of God’s love.” It was clear that Abby was falling in<br />
love with Jameson as well. “The more I talked to<br />
Jameson,” Abby says, “the more I grew to know<br />
his heart, and the more I fell in love with him,<br />
the more I knew he was my best friend. Jameson<br />
loves me and others fiercely, and is everything<br />
I could want in a husband.”<br />
When Abby’s parents came to town in May<br />
of 2022 for an awards banquet at Mississippi<br />
College, Jameson asked Abby’s dad, Lee, for<br />
permission to marry his daughter. Unbeknownst<br />
to any of the family, the photographer taking<br />
pictures at the dinner that night snapped a photo<br />
of Lee and Jameson talking. When Abby saw the<br />
picture on social media, she asked Jameson about<br />
it. “It was really hard to keep a straight face when<br />
she asked me what her dad and I were talking<br />
about in the photo, but I just told her I didn’t<br />
really remember,” Jameson says.<br />
Fast forward to 2023, when Jameson began<br />
planning the perfect proposal. “The library at<br />
Mississippi College is special to us because it’s<br />
where we first met face to face,” says Jameson,<br />
“so I knew I wanted to propose to her there.”<br />
He enlisted the help of none other than Mississippi<br />
College President Dr. Blake Thompson. With<br />
the help of Dr. Thompson’s assistant, Jameson<br />
was able to get Abby to the college under the<br />
ruse that as a student ambassador, she had been<br />
selected to give a campus tour to a very prestigious<br />
alumnus. A fake birthday dinner for Jameson was<br />
also planned for after the tour, an excuse for the<br />
couple to get dressed up. “Abby ended up asking me<br />
to join her on the tour, so we drove over together<br />
and went to Dr. Thompson’s office,” Jameson<br />
says. “I excused myself to the restroom but<br />
instead went to the library steps. Dr. Thompson<br />
told Abby she had a big responsibility and<br />
needed to be on her ‘A game’ because of who the<br />
alumnus was. She quickly picked up on what was<br />
going on when she walked into Dr. Thompson’s<br />
office to see her dad, Lee, who is actually a<br />
graduate of Mississippi College School of Law.”<br />
50 • JULY 2023