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Justin Cole Baiardi was accustomed to keeping people out of locations. But when Mr. Baiardiqueen9play, a bouncer at the Woods in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, saw Kiera Lynn Rommel on March 19, 2016, all he wanted to do was let her in.
Mr. Baiardi was working at the back entrance that night. “I held the door open for her,” he said. “She touched me on the shoulder and I said, ‘It’s $40 for touch.’”
Ms. Rommel said his comment made her laugh. “I was like, ‘I’m sorry.’ And we had like a nice back and forth,” she said. They continued to connect throughout the night.
“It was so magnetic,” Ms. Rommel said. “It was like this visceral feeling like I need to be around this person.
He introduced himself to her as J., so she asked him what that stood for. He said, Justin.
At first, Mrs. Jumper worried only about her in-laws’ livelihoods. But soon, her mind went somewhere else: to her own children’s mysterious health issues, including startlingly high cholesterol levels.
This was no rescue: Mr. Siffre, a geologist, was conducting an experiment on himself, to see what would happen to his sense of time if he cut himself off from the normal day-night flow of life on the surface.
She said, “I was born and raised on Justin Avenue in Staten Island.” It felt like a sign.
At 3 a.m., Mr. Baiardi asked Ms. Rommel for her number, and, when he was done for the night, she offered him a ride home. He accepted.
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