On a flight back to New York City from Germany in August 2021, Jonathan-Bruce James King messaged a Tinder match, Mary Kathryn Ann Burke, to ask her outiwildcasino, thinking they could meet sometime in the following week or two.
Ms. Burke was spending the summer in Montauk, N.Y., but when she received Mr. King’s text, she happened to be in New York City — her mother had just been admitted to the hospital. She explained the situation to Mr. King, and he told her that if she needed a break that evening, he would meet her wherever she wanted.
“I finished at the hospital, and I thought two things: My mother would tell me to go, and I could extra use a drink,” Ms. Burke said.
When they met that evening at the Upper West Side location of the Vin Sur Vingt Wine Bar in Manhattan, Mr. King said he quickly realized Ms. Burke was “wickedly funny.” Not only that, he said, but “I can’t get away with anything with her because she, like, fact-checked me midsentence.”
Ms. Burke was surprised by how well the date turned out. “I was having a great time, and I had just come off one of the hardest days of my life up to that point,” she said.
Ms. Burke, 41, is a senior editorial producer at ABC News, where she has worked for 18 years, since graduating from Harvard with a bachelor’s degree in English and American literature and languages. Ms. Burke grew up in Yorkville, Manhattan, with parents who were public school teachers.
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