Albert Alfy Elmarry: A Life on the
Upswing
It
was a whirlwind romance. He had been living in Toronto;
she in Cairo. He had gone home to Egypt for the wedding
of his brother. There they met and two weeks later were
engaged.
"It was crazy," recalled Irinie Guirguis, who married
Albert Alfy Elmarry, a computer specialist, one year
later. "We just knew we were right for each other."
By the time they married in November 1999, Mr. Elmarry
had started work in New York at Cantor Fitzgerald. Ms.
Guirguis followed him. They lived in an apartment in
Edison, N.J., and embarked on an exciting new life
together. Although they were sometimes homesick for their
families in Egypt, it was clear that the job of Mr.
Elmarry, who was 30, was going well &emdash; so well that
the couple decided to buy a house.
They closed on a town house in North Brunswick, N.J.,
on Aug. 1. Several weeks later, Ms. Guirguis discovered
she was pregnant with the couple's first child. The baby,
a girl, is due in April. Now, Ms. Guirguis is not sure
what to do.
"My family is in Egypt," she said. "But I feel Albert
is here. I don't want to leave him."
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