The day was June 24th, 2017. Alyse was ready to throw in the towel on her dating life. Going on Plenty of Fish that day to delete the app, she had messages in her inbox and Tom's message was there and sparked her interest. The only thing was it said he lived in Brooklyn. Tom was looking on the other side and Alyses profile said that her location was Long Island. But where on Long island? It's so big. She could not stop laughing at what he wrote to her and she bantered back even though distance may have been an issue. Alyse and Tom spent the whole night and morning talking back and forth to each other to find out both of them just moved back home and lived in Valley Stream. What a coincidence! They had an instant connection and later on that day decided to meet each other at Guys and Dolls. The rest was history.