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Mariano and I knew of each other for some time before formally meeting. We were at a college party and he introduced himself.
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Mariano and I knew of each other for some time before formally meeting. We were at a college party and he introduced himself.
Veronica and I have been friends for most of our lives. We don’t remember how we met, but we both remember when our relationship escaped the friend zone.
Stefano and I met working at Glen Island Harbour Club during our senior year of college. He was a bartender and I was a bridal attendant. The first time …
Studying abroad in Tel Aviv, Jonathan and I lived in the same dorm building and were in the same program…
Eric and I met through mutual friends and before getting married had been dating for eight years. Our very first date was at Rockefeller Center in NYC where we celebrated our first Christmas together…
I met Nadav at his best friend Justin’s birthday party in Manhattan’s Meatpacking district …
I was serving at my local church and Josue came by one day. I was welcoming people. A year later he asked me to have coffee and from there it just grew.
Nicole and I met online through Hinge. We hit it off right away and our first date was at a Spanish tapas bar. We immediately connected on our ambitions.
I met Richie in the summer of 2013 at the annual picnic at The Liberty Corner Fire Company. For the next three years, we kept in touch and …
Matt and I grew up with a lot of friends in common, but our paths crossed November 7, 2012, on social media. We had a lot in common and soon started dating.
Peter and I met in first grade when we were in the same religion class. We would see each other every Monday night and eventually our friendship grew.
We met in middle school summer tennis. Our first date was for dinner and a movie, as we had for years as friends, so it was a typical hangout for us.
Stephanie and I met in high school. We’ve been together ever since our first date at her favorite pizzeria. About 10 years later, we made it official!
We met in college and started dating a few years after graduation when I moved to Manhattan. Our first date was on the shoreline where we walked the beach.
Esther and I met through a mutual friend. For our first date, we had dinner at a restaurant I was working at part time, after which we went for a walk on the walkway along the Hudson River…
Meeting each other was such luck! We both were living in New Brunswick, NJ, where Josh was temporarily working on a political campaign and I was starting graduate school…
Mehdi and my brother have a construction company together, so when my brother had to go to Florida to work on a job, he asked me to help out as a design consultant…
I went out for dinner with a girlfriend and at the time my future husband was bar tending at that restaurant. He and I talked the whole night and …
Julian and I met during the summer through mutual friends. On our first date, Julian picked me up on his motorcycle and we went for dinner and ice cream.
My college roommate had the perfect guy for me, a friend from high school. Our friend groups collided, we all had a night out, and Steven asked me out.
The first time Steve asked me to be his girlfriend, I said no. We had known each other since freshman year of high school, and after keeping in touch through college, I was weary of ruining a great friendship.
AJ and I were friends for all four years of college, but it wasn’t until our last semester of senior year that we started to date …
I had a college intern who went to school with Xiao. He asked me to come along with him one day, not expecting me to fall in love with Xiao, which I did!
Michael and I met the summer before we went to college. He saw me online and that we were going to the same school. He reached out to me and …
Vincent and I met in the hallways of our high school. On our first date at a local pizzeria, Vinny turned to me and said, “When I saw you in the hall, I told my sister one day you would be my wife.”
Mike and I met online. We had our first date at Olive Lucy’s in Morristown and quickly became inseparable.
On our first date, we grabbed drinks at Bodega 88, a bar on the Upper West Side, where we checked off Michelle’s two favorites: margaritas and pickles.
Mike and I have known each other since middle school, and became best friends in high school and college in different states. We traveled Europe together, always as friends…
Anthony and I met at a family-owned restaurant in Wappingers Falls. I was bartending my way through nursing school when he convinced me to go on a date…
We were on staff at a summer retreat for a few summers and finally realized we had strong feelings and made it official after a walk under the stars.
We met in a grocery store where I was dressed in my chef outfit as a restaurant sous chef. She thought I worked there and asked me for assistance.
DJ and I unknowingly lived within minutes of each other for years, yet it took an online dating app for our paths to finally cross after college, and …
We met online through the app Bumble in Feb 2018. Our first date was at South House, a popular restaurant in Jersey City. We hit it off right away.
We met at my friend’s graduation party in 2012. Kyle proposed in front of our entire family on the beach in Wildwood, which is our favorite vacation spot.
I met Wayne at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Denver on my first travel nursing assignment in pre-COVID 2019. Whether fate or good luck, we were on the same unit.
Brian and I have known each other for what feels like our whole lives. Our families have been friends since our parents went to high school together.
All it took was five seconds for our lives to change forever. I was hurrying along 56th Street in Midtown when a man across the street caught my attention.
When I began working at The Brownstone, Jaime had worked there for several years. We had an instant connection, always talking and …
Anthony and I met through mutual friends at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, CT, but did not start dating until junior year…
On our first date we talked for hours about our families, friends, and careers. We were at the same college but were meant to meet when the time was right.
Anthony and I knew each other before starting to date. Our parents grew up in the same town and were Nutley High School graduates. Coincidentally, Anthony became best friends with my cousins…
We met in English class at Indiana U. Josh came up to me and said he liked the way I said “paragraph” in my slight NY accent: the pickup line of the century!