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An Auburn Transplant in Philly: AU grad asks Bama fan friend to get an Auburn tattoo in return for her kidney

1996 Auburn psychology graduate Becca Coluntano and Chad Watkins met at the gym. It didn’t take long. They’re cut from the same cloth. They talk the same trash — one about Alabama, one about Auburn. One day in 2004, Becca walked in in an Auburn shirt, not thinking twice about it, encountering the enemy at a weight rack on the outskirts of Philadelphia the last thing she expected. But there he was.

“You can’t walk into here with that on.”

She fired back, instantly — instinctively. She knew what he was. Local skirmishes along Iron Bowl lines are obviously rare in Pennsylvania.