It all started at a Phish show in Rochester...
Jack at his 110th show and Marci tagging along for her 3rd.
Marci had recently moved back to Toronto from New York City with plans to be there forever. With her new puppy Stanley away at bootcamp, Marci was easily persuaded by her friends to join them on a little Wednesday afternoon road trip on the condition that she would head right back to Toronto after the show.
Jack and his sister Yael were starting out on a Fall Tour run of 9 shows. Rochester was first on the list. Jack walked into the lobby of his Rochester hotel and locked eyes with Marci from across the room. They waved at each other and smiled awkwardly despite never really ever seeing each other or speaking.
The show was GA seating so all of the Toronto phans were sitting in the same section. What do you know? Jack ended up seated in the row right behind Marci. During the show he saw her dance moves out of the corner of his eye and he began to wonder…
As everyone was filing out at the end of the show, Jack and Marci ended up walking beside each other. Something urged Marci to strike up a conversation. They walked, talked and laughed and both immediately felt a connection.
The next day Jack woke up and the first thing he did was text Marci. Thinking he wrote her number down wrong in a panic he messaged her on Facebook to get in touch. And there in the message history from April 26, 2006 was this conversation:
Marci: loved the poke, thanks!!!
Jack: I’ll poke you anytime. The pleasure was all mine. Get ready for another one…..
There it was. It didn’t start at the show in Rochester, Marci had been waiting 7 years to finally finish their first conversation from Facebook. Maybe they met at a Miami Beach Matzo Ball in 2005, maybe they crossed paths in the Forest Hill village in the 90s, but in actual fact Jack added Marci to Facebook and had been FB stalking her for years.
That first “official” meeting in Rochester in 2013 was the start of Jack and Marci’s long distance relationship between Toronto and Los Angeles. Visiting each other as much as they could and meeting in different cities around the states. Marci and Stanley moved to LA to live with Jack in October 2014 and they’ve been inseparable ever since.