When lovers become colleagues, they often find it is bad for business, and romance. But for Elizabeth Ashlea Wood and Gabriel Spektor Nussbaum, both 26, the immersion of teaching children in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans and making a documentary together further melded their hearts.
“It didn’t add pressure to our relationship,” Mr. Nussbaum said. “It formed our relationship.”
They had first noticed each other on a morning in October 2005, at an East Hampton cafe during the Hamptons International Film Festival. Mr. Nussbaum was there to show his first feature film, “Treasure,” but was moaning to a friend, Hannah Grady, that he just could not find the right girl.
“Someone like her?” Ms. Grady suggested, pointing to an exquisite-looking sprite with wild red hair. That was Ms. Wood, who was bobbing in laughter with friends in a booth.
Mr. Nussbaum vowed to speak with the redhead “by 4 p.m.” But Ms. Wood left the cafe before he could approach.
That same day, well before the clock struck 4, he spotted her again during a screening in a nearby art gallery…
Wow, good for them. Great story. BTW, when is To27.com going to start helping us out with missed connections?!