By Rosa Sanchez

Photographs by Ahmed Gaber

April 28, 2025

Brittany Romano, 32, was not looking to start her own long-distance rom-com last September when she showed up to the lounge at LaGuardia Airport’s Terminal B 10 minutes before her flight was set to board — but she did.

That’s where she met Matt Harrington, 35, a schoolteacher from Pasadena, Calif. He had spied her rushing through security, and when she stopped in the lounge for her usual routine — “take a shot and use the restroom” — he sent her a tequila shot and took one himself. Then the two jogged to catch their plane, as it turned out they were on the same flight to Los Angeles.

Ms. Romano, an entertainment journalist who lives in New York, assumed that would be that, but Mr. Harrington begged a flight attendant to switch his seat so he could sit with her. More tequila shots followed over the course of the six-hour flight; the pair still talk daily.

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