We both met in a bar – it is not as sleazy as it sounds. At the time, I was an overworked and very underpaid contractor working in the defense industry. Ever since I was a lad in the UK, I have really enjoyed politics, current affairs so I got involved in a social group that mixed political discussion and booze. The group was mainly made up of young people trying to make their mark on the Washington political scene as junior lobbyists or very junior staff members for politicians. They wanted to blow off steam and talk shop and I wanted to listen, so it became a regular, sanity-saving, thing for me.
Organizing the group, there was a young lobbyist who had studied in the UK and we bonded over a lack of good beer and Nandos. She would regularly bring her colleagues and friends to this happy hour and on one occasion, my political friend brought her best friend to a happy hour. We hit it off immediately, neither of us working in politics, and the evening passed in a flash.
We added each other on Facebook, and attended quite a few more happy hours together, becoming really good friends. Things just grew from there, she even turned down a job in another state to stay close to me and the rest, as they say, is history. The moral of the story: you can meet nice girls in bars
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