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尼莉亚和乔在很多方面都不同。首先，她的家人不是天主教徒。另一方面，她非常富有。但这些对年轻夫妇似乎并不重要。他们相爱了，知道他们注定要在一起。乔开始每个周末开车320英里去看她。他甚至放弃了踢足球，因为训练会缩减他的探望时间。
Meeting Neilia diverted a lot of Joe’s attention from college. But, it turns out, it also made him more determined to succeed. The thing is, Neilia had unerringconfidence in him. So much so that he began to feel more confident in himself. Under her influence, he buckled down for his last semesters in college, and did well enough to win a place at the Syracuse University College of Law.
认识尼莉亚转移了乔在大学的注意力。但是，事实证明，这也让他更加坚定了成功的决心。问题是尼莉亚对他非常有信心，以至于他开始对自己更有信心了。在她的影响下，他在大学的最后一个学期努力学习，成绩优异，被锡拉丘兹大学法学院录取了。
At law school, Joe passed his final exams, thanks to Neilia"s help with revising. His next challenge was to find a place to practice law, in what was a notoriously competitive field. Luckily, his father managed to get him an introduction at the prestigious law firm, Prickett, Ward, Burt, and Sanders in their hometown of Wilmington. Despite his less-than-stellaracademic transcript, Joe talked himself into the job!