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The couple who met at the top of the Eiffel Tower
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American Dan Giedeman happened upon Swiss visitor Esther Wieland at the top of the Eiffel Tower in September 1998. An afternoon wandering the city together sparked a cross-continental romance.
(CNN) — American graduate student Dan Giedeman spent much of his first trip to Paris inside a conference room.
It was September 1998 and Dan, then 27, was studying for a doctorate in economics at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. When his professor invited him to attend a meeting in the French capital, Dan jumped at the opportunity.
"I grew up in the middle of the United States, the Midwest. So I'd never had a chance to go to Europe, or really anywhere outside the country," Dan tells CNN Travel today. "I was thrilled to go."
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