He met Kirsch - now with short, dark-brown hair - a few days later at a party and was swept away by her "unbelievable charm," her smarts and more.
"She's just magnetic. She just knows how to control a room when she walks in, she really does," Verdibello said. "I could just see heads turn whenever she would walk in."
During the party Verdibello learned that Kirsch was involved with his fraternity brother, so he backed off. But not for long.
Kirsch invited Verdibello and the frat brother to "The Vagina Monologues" performed on campus in February 2006 by the Drexel Players. "She was fantastic, so believable. She was natural at it. It was something else she was good at."
Later that night at a party, Verdibello said, she took him by the collar, pushed him against a wall and began kissing him. He said he felt guilty, adding, "It was me giving in to a beautiful girl."
They began dating a few weeks later, before he headed to London in March 2006. He returned in June. She told him that she had cheated on all of her boyfriends. He told her the "past was the past." *
