“I just was fascinated with her because she was so beautiful,” he says. Both of them had planned to use the red eye flight to catch up on some sleep.īut within minutes Moyer had introduced himself and they’d hit it off. It was nearing midnight when the future couple boarded the airplane. Robert Moyer and Noel Taxin, pictured here not long after they first met, have been together for 15 years. They’d met their future spouse in the place they were least expecting it – 30,000 feet in the sky. “I said, I’m going to make a point of talking to her,” says Moyer.įor Moyer and Taxin, this serendipitous, airplane meet-cute was the beginning of a 15-years-and-counting romance. “I sit down and I’m on the aisle and he comes on and he walks by me looks at me, smiles and sits right behind me,” says Taxin.
“I just remember seeing this woman on the corner of my eye – cute, dark hair…” he recalls.Ĭut to a couple of hours later and the two of them board their flight to New York City.Ĭoincidence 1: They’re on the same flight.Ĭoincidence 2: They’re just seats from one another. He’d just been laid off from his job and knew his three-month-long relationship was going nowhere. Little did she know that this man, Robert Moyer, a divorcee seven years her senior, had spotted her, too.įor Moyer, his upcoming flight was a culmination of a rough week. “I thought, ‘Oh he’s cute,’ ” she remembers, but he was a stranger and clearly in a relationship, so she pushed the thought away. Out of the corner of her eye, she spotted a man kissing a girl goodbye. Noel Taxin, 33, pulled up at Salt Lake City International Airport and grabbed her bags from the car. Don't forget to pack one in your summer tote bag for optimal enjoyment of the season's best reads.August 2003. Whether you're in YA or general fiction, there's a book here for you. Who can help swooning over those adorably unexpected moments of serendipity that bring two people together? A stuck elevator, a plate of overturned fast food, a case of mistaken identity - I can't help but squeal with excitement whenever the moment occurs when, as a reader, I meet two characters who are destined to be together.especially when they don't realize it yet.īelow are 13 books with meet-cutes that contain all of the feels-inducing swoon-worthy moments you could ever hope for: from love-at-first-sight to hate-at-first-sight, awkward mishaps, steamy encounters, it's all here and it's all going to make you never want to read anything other than books that contain dramatically adorable beginnings to new relationships. This plot device - a scene in which a future romantic couple meet for the first time, often in a particularly cute or awkward way - has become something of a pop culture phenomenon, and I totally understand why. There are certain tropes in books that I just can't get enough of: enemies-to-lovers, slow burn romance, oh-there's-only-one-bed-I-guess-we'll-have-to-share.
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