. >> lois klein is autumn's mom. >> we knew she was putting her mind on her studies and we are giving her the best education we could possibly give her. she was taking advantage of it. >> med school was a certainty. autumn announced she was heading to boston. her mother worried the city's crime it was too high. >> she said, i'm going to boston university medical school. and i said no you're not. she said yes i am and i said no you're not. she said, yes i am, and she went to boston university medical school. she had a mind of her own >> in medical school, autumn developed a romantic thing for her research colleague, and he for her. robert ferrante, bob to his friend, held a ph. d. in neuroscience. she was hunting for cures to devastating brain illnesses like lou gehrig's and huntington's disease. he was also more than 20 years for senior, divorced with two grown kids. >> i simply told her that that was a little bit too old for her. i didn't think that that was the right age. >> but two days before graduation from med school, a determined autumn wasting no time was walking down the aisl