How I Met My Real Life Romantic Hero
Hi all! I’m Charly, Rebecca’s assistant. We thought it’d be fun to do a ‘Romance: The Good, the Bad, and the Disastrous’ theme with guest bloggers throughout the summer months. Every Monday and Thursday, we’ll have a guest blogger talk about fun stuff like horrible dates, good dates, etc. Some bloggers will have a contest, and some won’t – it’s totally up to them. If there is a contest, I’ll randomly draw a winner from the post comments, send the winner’s email address to the guest blogger, and they’ll take it from there. Rebecca will jump in and blog when she can. For now, enjoy as we play!
My name is Rachel Harris and I write love stories. I obsessively read love stories. I’m addicted to happily-ever-afters and the giddy moment when two flawed characters meet for the first time and you as the reader just know that a wild ride is set to begin. Here’s a look at how my own true life “meet cute”….and how fate let it happen at just the right moment.
My husband and I met after 9/11. As a student at LSU, I’d been under the impression that everyone would skip classes that horrific day, glued to the television, huddling with friends and talking to loved ones, so imagine my surprise when I returned to class later that week to discover only two of us had skipped. Now, it was a senior level broadcast journalism course so in hindsight I guess it makes sense that people went to get that take on the unfolding events, but that was so not where my head was that day.
My teacher paired the two of us skippees together for an assignment, and that weekend I had to meet my partner to pick up the video camera we were sharing. He was eating dinner at a restaurant with his roommates and told me to meet him there, and apparently, after I left, one of them suggested he ask me out, which he later did, asking me to bring along a friend for his roommate.
A few days later, we met up….only pretty early on in the date, we switched dates 
