modern day romance

Darin and Amna met on the evening of March 31, 2017, two days after after Amna returned from a brief stint living in Malaysia. Darin had been having drinks with his friends at Barcelona, a restaurant in DC, and Amna was there celebrating a friend's bachelorette party. As Amna was waiting outside for her Lyft to head home for the night, she thought she heard the man standing next to her mumble something at her. Intrigued, Amna struck up a conversation, which led to shared griping about rideshare apps (which was in fact what Darin had been grumbling about rather than actually trying to charm Amna). As they debated the downsides of Uber v Lyft, Darin mentioned that he was heading to Flash—one of Amna’s favorite spots for electronic dance music—so she offered to share her ride. Along the way, they discovered they had both grown up in NOVA, but Darin had been born in Cambodia, a country Amna had just visited before coming back to the States. Darin invited her in for a drink, which led to more talking and dancing ‘til the wee hours of the night. Over the course of the days and weeks that followed, Darin and Amna hung out a few times and continued to text. After Ramadan ended, they had a chance to spend a bit more time together and began a beautiful friendship. They discovered that although they have very different personalities, they were also able to be very open with each other, and the light bulbs began to flicker. As time went on, and they grew to know each other’s friends and families, they came to see that they are, in fact, imperfectly perfect for each other.