For new Mecklenburg County Manager Dena Diorio, a long but steady rise to the top

... was smitten with the other. Robert, shy, hoped Dena would ask him out. She did, taking him to lunch at a Greenwich Village diner on Valentine’s Day 1991. “I thought he was adorable, so I asked him out.” Soon they were engaged. They ...

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