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from a Washington Post article on Victor MacFarlane, one of DC United's owners:

He met the woman who would become his wife, Thaderine, during a trip to New Orleans in 1982 to inspect a hotel where she worked as manager of the concierge desk.

"I was expecting Mr. MacFarlane to be this older Irish guy," Thaderine recalled with a laugh. Instead she met the 6-foot-6 MacFarlane. He asked her to lunch, but she declined because hotel policy forbade employees from dating guests.

"I'm not a guest. I own the hotel," the soft-spoken MacFarlane fibbed.

She agreed to lunch. Three months later, they were married.


(Read the whole article if you have time; he's really quite an interesting guy.)