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A Cover Girl's Gorgeous Getaway
by Mark Seal
Keri Russell has one very good
reason to love Martha's Vineyard, the roughly 100-square-mile
Massachusetts island that serves as a getaway for dozens of
America's rich and famous. Her reason has nothing to do with the
beautiful fall foliage or the cool summer nights or the tony
company or the relative proximity of the Vineyard to her New York
home. Oh, she likes all of that. But there's something else to it
for the 31-year-old former star of television's
Felicity, who now
makes her living as a spokeswoman for CoverGirl and with
roles in such films as andWaitressAugust Rush, a drama out
this month in which she costars with Jonathan Rhys Meyers.
The reason she loves Martha's Vineyard is actually much more
poetic than falling leaves or summer breezes. You see, the
first time Russell visited the island, she was in the company
of a man who grew up there and whose parents still live
there. She fell in love with that man - a carpenter and an
amateur surfer named Shane Deary. In fact, his connection to
the Vineyard was one of the things that first attracted her
to him. "We met through friends," Russell recalls. "I'd been
single for quite a long time, and he was, honestly, one of
the first guys I met that I thought, He is so cute! I
immediately went outside [after meeting him] and texted my
girlfriends and said, 'There is such a cute guy here, oh my
gosh. And he's a surfer from Martha's
Vineyard!'?"
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