Father's Day Weekend of 2020 Lauren and Jeff matched on Bumble. Lauren immediately thought Jeff looked familiar, but let that come up "naturally" in conversation. Their first date was June 22, 2020 in Kips Bay. They got drinks to-go (thanks covid) from Factory 380 and then walked and sat outdoors at Home Base. Jeff ordered a grapefruit cocktail that Lauren convinced him to give her, so that he could have the one that she ordered and disliked. Before they knew it, hours had gone by with the two of them laughing and exchanging stories and they learned that they had unknowingly overlapped their entire lives up until that very evening.

East Birchwood for starters, where Jeff was born and Lauren grew up. The Woldar's moved out two years before the Sobel's moved in! Jeff then moved to Rolling Hills and was next door neighbors with a very close friend of Lauren's from high school. Guess she never knew the neighbors. Dan and Greg- their brothers are the same age and were friendly throughout middle and high school. Greg found a photo of the two of them at a Bar Mitzvah in 2001! Syosset High School - they both attended for four years overlapping Lauren's freshman and Jeff's senior year. Ralphs - their "careers" may have been a little bit different because Jeff was fired after 2 weeks for giving friends free ices and Lauren was there for four years and had the key. Fast forward to their first date... They tried to figure out a convenient spot to meet. When Lauren asked where in the city Jeff lived, he responded "Kips Bay" to which she responded "me too!" They then realized that they lived ACROSS THE STREET from each other on East 27th Street. And the rest is history!