Lester Holt

Her cousin, closest sisters, Sharon King, remembers that even as a little girl, she administered playtime TLC.

And Dr. Autumn Klein was holding clinic hours.

It was an interest that took root early for Autumn and never left.

Always a top-of-her-class student in the Baltimore area.

She later got her undergraduate degree in neuroscience from Amherst.

You and your husband must have been very, very proud of her.

Lois Klein, Autumn's mom.

Med school was a certainty.

Autumn announced she was heading to Boston.

Her mother worried the city's crime rate was too high.

In medical school, Autumn developed a romantic thing for a research colleague and he for her.

Robert Ferranti, Bob to his friends, held a Ph.D.

in neuroscience and was hunting for cures to devastating brain illnesses like Lou Gehrig's and Huntington's diseases.

He was also more than 20 years her senior, divorced with two grown kids.

But two days before graduation from med school, a determined Autumn, wasting no time, was walking down the aisle with her much older bridegroom.

And what was your impression of him, Sharon?

Egghead?

Nerdy?

The couple made a home just outside Boston.

In a few years, a baby girl arrived into their hectic lives.