McMahon made an immediate impression on the former press secretary.
“And I look over.
I’m like, ‘accent,'” she joked.
Her feelings towards McMahon only intensified throughout the flight.
It took McMahon 10 days to reach out, and by then, Perino had started to lose hope.
Just as she was preparing to forget about him, he emailed.
10 months later, Perino moved to England to be with him.
Initially, that difference was one of many things Perino worried about when pursuing McMahon.
“I’m only 25.
What are we going to do … this can’t be possible,” she remembered thinking.
McMahon living in England was another concern for Perino, who was on the cusp ofher stunning career transformation.
But she took the leap, moving to England and fully committing to their life together.
“Still feels improbable,” she wrote.
“What if I’d missed the plane or was assigned to a different seat?”
Despite the odds stacked against them, the pair met and have never looked back.
