Ari & Jamie met in high school at Newton South (go Lions!). They went on a single first date to see the movie "Titanic" and even went to a semi-formal together, but remained just friends for many years. In 2018, they reconnected in NYC after an 8 year hiatus and though the Rose Bar at the Gramercy Park Hotel definitely sparked something, it was not until Jamie returned to Newton during the COVID lockdown that things really started to crystalize. Several months into the pandemic, still in Newton and just having officially given up her Brooklyn apartment, Jamie & Ari had their second "first date" at Bar Taco in the Boston seaport, approximately 25 years after that fated night at Cleveland Circle cinemas. And the rest, as they say, is history.