Colman Domingo shares how he met husband through Craigslist adThe Graham Norton Show, BBC
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00:00 So I'm walking in and I see someone walking out,
00:02 has beautiful hair down to here, lip piercing,
00:05 beautiful, beautiful.
00:06 I see this guy and we look at each other,
00:08 I'm like, "Oh my God."
00:09 And I'm on the phone and I come outside
00:11 and we look at each other and he's talking to this young woman
00:14 and she seems to be angry about something.
00:15 So it's a lot of like, you know,
00:17 and he keeps looking at me and she's all,
00:19 and I'm like, "What's going on?"
00:21 And so I'm like, "Oh, let me get off the phone.
00:23 "I'm gonna get off the phone."
00:24 I get off the phone, they walk off down the street,
00:28 but he keeps looking back.
00:29 But he, and I wave, but he just keeps going.
00:33 And then I'm just dumbfounded
00:36 and I end up in a blockbuster, you know, across the street,
00:39 you know, and I don't even know what I'm doing,
00:40 but I decided to look at my watch and it was 8.03.
00:43 And I came back outside and I thought, "Is he here?"
00:46 And I thought, "Well, maybe I'll come back next Sunday
00:48 "and he'll be here."
00:49 I'm that kind of hopeless romantic.
00:51 So anyway, cut to three days later,
00:53 I'm trying to buy a used computer
00:55 and I was just scanning Craigslist.
00:58 They have Craigslist over here, right?
00:59 -Yeah. -I was scanning Craigslist, right?
01:01 So I thought, "Maybe I'll place
01:02 "one of those Miss Connections ads.
01:03 "I wonder if they work."
01:04 'Cause I would read them on the subway.
01:06 I go to page two of them as I'm reading
01:09 and I see, "Saw you outside of Walgreens, Berkeley."
01:12 He placed an ad for me two hours before.
01:15 -Come on, bro.
01:16 -I jumped up. I was like, "Are you kidding me?
01:18 "That's me." He described me with my faux hawk.
01:21 It was 2005.
01:24 And I was like, "Get out of here."
01:25 So we met up three days later.
01:28 We had our first date.
01:29 I was trying to be a good boy and go home.
01:31 He said, "Can you stay over?"
01:33 I said, "Sure, but let's just cuddle."
01:34 We cuddled.
01:36 I thought he was asleep.
01:37 4 o'clock in the morning, I couldn't sleep,
01:38 and I said, "I think I love you
01:39 "and you're about to change my life."
01:41 And we've been together for almost 19 years now.
01:43 -No!
01:45 -Almost 18 years.