While today, Ben and Erin Napier star in the HGTV renovation series, “Home Town,” their love started long before that!
The two, who’ve been married since 2008, actually met in 2004, back when they both attended Jones College in Ellisville, Mississippi.
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And on Monday, Erin flocked to her Instagram stories to give her followers a rare look inside the past.
In one photo, which Erin captioned as being “on my desk in my dorm,” featured her and her now-husband cuddled close together as they shared a nap on a sofa.
Another photo gave a look at Ben in an image she said was “taped to my headboard in my dorm.”
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The nostalgia continued as she posted one more photo of Ben from the old days, which, like the others, showed him sporting a shorter beard and longer hair than “Home Town” viewers are used to seeing. “i had never seen a finer boy than this,” Erin wrote.
So what exactly led to this public praise? It all started when she browsed dorm pics from the current class of future college graduates.
“My IG feed keeps showing me the young folks’ fancy dorm rooms, so I present for your consideration: my sophomore dorm room from the year of our Lord 2004,” she wrote in a post she shared moments after those other shots.
“Do people still buy movie posters? I bought that paper lantern in Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco the summer before freshman year, bedding from Target, rug from Dirt Cheap. I would lay in that twin bed and talk on the phone to Ben Napier till 4:00 am after he dropped me off for the night. Have fun, you college kids!”
This is not the first time Erin has publicly celebrated her husband for going above and beyond.
“If he’s not scooping me up off the sofa as I’m still recovering from surgery, he’s mixing a bottle or taking Helen swimming,” she shared last year in an Instagram post.
“And I have kissed him every time he’s in arm’s reach because I know exactly how lucky we all are. A reminder for those with spouses: tell them often – ‘thank you for everything you do for us.’ and MEAN IT. Thank you for EVERYTHING you do for us, lover.”
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