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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Announces Engagement To Longtime Boyfriend

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has announced her engagement to longtime boyfriend, Riley Roberts, and we couldn’t be happier for the pair.

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United States representative for New York’s fourteenth congressional district is getting hitched to Riley Roberts after getting engaged in Puerto Rico, The Daily Beast reports.

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Taking to Twitter Cortez told her followers: “We got engaged last month in my family’s hometown in Puerto Rico.”

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“No future details yet, we’re taking some space to savor this time before diving into planning,” she continued.

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Eliza Relman, a political editor, took to Twitter to break the good news among her followers: “In some lighter news – @AOC confirmed to me that she’s engaged,”

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And Cortez, who commonly goes by the initials AOC, retweeted the article saying “It’s true! Thank you for all the well wishes.”

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Where did the couple meet? You may be wondering…

They met at Boston University when they were just undergraduates, and although they broke up for a short while after graduating, they made their way back to one another.

Filmmaker, Racheal Lears, gave an incredible tribute to the pair:

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“Everything from the emotional to the strategic to the practical, he has been a really important partner to her,” she said of Cortez’s soon-to-be husband.

We’re so happy for the couple…

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Congratulations!