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Summer Happy Hour! | September 25, 2013

by Jen Ung

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We had a scorcher of a summer, but that didn’t keep ECCers from coming out to our annual summer happy hour. On July 24th, over 30 members made their way to the Brass Monkey in the Meatpacking District, where they mixed and mingled over refreshing drinks, delicious food, and an ECC- board–generated literary couples game. Each attendee was given a card with the name of a literary character, and was tasked with finding their match. Romeo found his Juliet. Elizabeth Bennett found her Mr. Darcy. Heathcliff found his Ophelia (Just kidding!). And there was a lot of kerfuffle over who truly belongs with whom in the Harry Potter series. A delightfully nerdy time was had by all. Drinks, food, spectacularly geeky debates, a fantastic rooftop view of the Hudson River. What more could you ask for?

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