He Got Game | 1
The Moment
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🗓️ 10 July 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Kirk’s heart skipped a beat when he first saw Jenny crossing the college campus. There was only one problem: Jenny was dating someone else and didn’t even know he existed. But eighteen years later, a Facebook algorithm brought Kirk back into Jenny’s life, and he finally landed a first date with her. It would take a “Say Anything”-level grand gesture to win her back. And Ingrid shares the grand gesture that almost worked on her.
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| 0:00.0 | The year was 1997. |
| 0:05.0 | Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston were an item. |
| 0:11.0 | On the sinking Titanic, Rose told Jack she'd never let go. And somewhere |
| 0:15.8 | on campus at Dartmouth College, Kirk Spahn saw Jenny Alden for the first time. |
| 0:21.1 | I was walking to tennis practice. She was coming the opposite direction. |
| 0:27.0 | And you may know the feeling. Kirk's heart skipped a beat. |
| 0:30.0 | I kind of lost it when I saw her and it was one of those head-turners sort of gulp moments. |
| 0:39.0 | Kirk was a history major from New York and Jenny was studying art history and wanted to be an |
| 0:43.9 | actress. She was from the West Coast with long blonde hair and a bright smile. It |
| 0:49.2 | seemed to Kirk like she had dropped in from another universe. |
| 0:53.0 | She was California in the middle of New Hampshire. |
| 0:55.0 | Had just this enthusiasm and energy that was kind of infectious. |
| 0:59.0 | When I got to my tennis team after practice I remember asking has anyone seen this |
| 1:05.9 | freshman and the response was yes apparently everybody had and I was not the first person to recognize or look at |
| 1:16.5 | Jenny Alden on campus. In fact, before the school year had even begun, another guy |
| 1:21.8 | had swooped in and started dating Jenny. |
| 1:24.3 | Justin LeBlanc. |
| 1:25.7 | He kind of locked and loaded me before school even began. |
| 1:28.5 | That's Jenny. |
| 1:29.5 | And when it came to guys, she had a type. |
| 1:31.9 | You know, it's not that I had a type it's that they found me and I was just done like this |
| 1:36.7 | guy pre-orientation at Dartmouth was a hockey player I didn't even know like what |
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