(People) – Most mornings, Paige Russo woke her husband, Nicholas, with his favorite brown sugar shaken espresso before they headed off to work.
Both raised in Farmingville on Long Island, N.Y., Paige and Nicholas first met in middle school and began dating in 11th grade. They eventually married and built a life surrounded by the family and friends they had grown up with.
Nicholas, now 30, was what Paige describes as a “jack of all trades.” He worked as an insurance broker and a warehouse manager for an educational publishing company, bartended and served on weekends and traveled into New York City for late-night stagehand work. CONTINUE