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The first time Paddy saw Maya she was gasping for breath outside the theater. She had booked it for seven blocks. The pair had coffee as they waited for the show to begin. Remember how I said it was terrible? Many people joke about how bad improv is. Few are personally attacked by it. For the aspiring couple, the breaking point was a sketch titled “Worst First Date” which featured a white man and South Asian woman having a terrible date. After that sketch, it was decided they should be elsewhere and fled in an effort to rescue their date and escape whatever message fate was hurling aggressively at them. Fortunately, their night was salvaged through people watching from the roof of Shakespeare’s on Sixth Street. They grew close through the shared fun judging other people from afar. Said people watching featured an out-of-place middle aged man in pink shorts, who they both agreed was up to no good, and several bands of youths making poor decisions. Their date ended with Maya meeting her true soul mate, Ash the dog, after driving Paddy home. And so began Paddy and Maya’s relationship on August 20, 2015.