Brexit Was the Start of Romance
On their first date, Melissa Marcus and Justin Wass went to a bar to watch the results of the U.K. referendum to leave the European Union.
Credit...Nicki Fietzer
April 9, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
Melissa Marcus had been on four dating apps for almost two years when she matched on Bumble with Justin Wass in June 2016.
“He was creative and goofy. In one photo he was wearing a tie-dye shirt with cats on it and he wrote a haiku,” said Ms. Marcus, 30, a senior program officer at New Visions for Public Schools, a nonprofit educational program that supports New York City public schools. “He was different from the carbon-copy men I dated in the past.”