along with Jason.

“I noticed her as soon as she came into the
bar,” Jason admitted, “but I would have never
said anything, I was too nervous to talk to her.”
“She actually approached me,” he recount-
ed of their meet-cute. “I had no idea who she
was. I’d never seen her a day before in my life.

But I kind of just went with it.”
But Blair knew him. She remembered see-
ing him around town and down the shore for
the past decade.

“I said, ‘I’ve seen you around for about 10
years, I guess it’s time we finally had a con-
versation,’ ” Blair recalled. “Jason claims he’s
never seen me a day in his life, but he acted
like an Academy Award-winning actor and
was like, ‘Yeah, I was thinking the same thing,
have a seat.’ And we ended up talking for an
hour, and immediately, we both knew that
was it for us.”
(Surprisingly — maybe Blair forgot this
part — Jason said she turned him down the
first time.)
That was almost four years ago.

Maybe she turned him down the first time
because she couldn’t believe her prayers had
been answered — literally.

Three weeks prior, she was driving around
town for work and randomly stopped in a
cash-for-gold store because she heard the
Blair’s happy response to seeing
herself in her wedding dress in the
Kleinfeld dressing room.

owner was an Israeli Jew. Out of curiosity, they
struck up a casual conversation.

From one Jew to another, the saleswoman
asked Blair what she had planned for the up-
coming High Holidays.

“I said, ‘Just going to my mom’s house for
dinner. Typical High Holiday thing,’ ” Blair
replied. “She was like, ‘Wait a minute, you’re
not going to synagogue?’ And at that time, I
really stopped going to synagogue after my
Bat Mitzvah.”
She wasn’t planning on going, but the
woman told her, “If you don’t go to synagogue
and hear the shofar being blown, it’s literally
like not showing up to your own court date.”
Out of Jewish guilt and a fear of bad karma,
Blair asked her mother if she could tag along,
but of course, the tickets were sold out.

So she asked Aunt Estelle, the Jewish ma-
triarch of the family, who recommended she
go with cousin Patsy to an open synagogue in
Rittenhouse Square, Leyv Ha-Ir ~ Heart of
the City.

“Maybe I’ll find my soul mate if I go,”
Blair remembers thinking. “And the whole
time I was in there, I was literally praying,
‘I’m ready for my soul mate. Please send
me my soul mate. Please. Enough is
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