When Rich Vicenti and Alesa Lightbourne were students at Cowell College in the 1970s, he courted, but she was not available. Then they graduated and took separate paths. They were both single nearly four decades after their last dance at UC Santa Cruz. She was in Iraq, learning firsthand about the struggles of Kurdish women when they reconnected on Facebook. Over the internet, they finally began the romance that was not possible in their youth.
