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Mike Ladman

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Nicole Riolo

May 7, 2027

West Orange, NJ
321 days321 d23 hours23 h11 minutes11 min4 seconds4 s

Good ole Westville lunch

Timmy’s Jazz Hole

5 months shy of a pandemic, we met at a work lunch at Westville. That following summer, while Nicole was on her family’s annual Ocean Grove trip, Mike was just a few miles North in the Highlands. Fate would have it that on Nicole’s last day there that summer, they matched on a dating app and apparently according to one of them a misinterpreted snubbing took place. If you know the story you know supposedly who snubbed who… A little over two and a half years later and after many misread hints and disguised catch up calls, meetings, lunches, dinners, and a birthday party we finally found ourselves at a concert, just the two us followed by a bite at Timmy’s Jazz Hole where we enjoyed jelly fish on what was our first date. Shortly there after, the “bubble effect” weekend took place and by day two a stranger assumed his ora ring was a wedding band - the rest was history. They said it should be easy, and believe you me, it really can be <3