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During the week, Im a web developer atNew YorkMagazine, toiling in the JavaScript trenches.
My boyfriend Marc is an attorney.
But every week on Saturday night, for .3476 seconds, we become theSNLOpening Credits Kiss Couple.
If you watchSNLand you dont know what Im talking about, you blinked at the wrong moment.
Youre probably wondering how this went down.
This past September, Marc and I had been dating for a few months.
), I was elated to be dating someone who felt just right.
Good things usually come out of unmarked white vans, so our interest was piqued.
So … Im a production assistant forSNL.
Were here shooting background video for new opening credits and we saw you two kissing, she said.
We thought it was pretty cute, so we zoomed and got some good footage of it.
Youll probably end up on the cutting-room floor, but theres a chance wed use it.
At a few minutes before 11:30 p.m., Marc asked the bartender to turn onSNL.
And just like that, we ended up in the opening credits of season 44 ofSNL.
And Marc and I?
Several months later, were still steaming up street corners all over NYC.
