Height-challenged NCAA love story

Butler center Andrew Smith and his fiancée Samantha (Sam) Stage are earning a reputation as the "heart-meltingly cute couple of the NCAA." It's not hard to understand why.

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  1. When they are seated side-by-side, you
  2. There
  3. The high school sweethearts have been together four years now, but he was almost as tall when they first met. "He
  4. The couple doesn
  5. Smith takes her dancing, even if he needs to take a knee to make it work.
  6. Or there are other ways to even things out.
  7. The "goober" couple (pictured here at their 2009 prom) clearly make each other laugh. And before his romantic proposal, he stashed the ring where she wouldn
  8. When he proposed, he surprised her on her birthday. He sent her to look for a present in her room while he got the ring. When she came back out, "he was on one knee in the living room," says Stage.
  9. When they are seated side-by-side, you'd never guess how differently these two see the world. But when they stand up...