The curtain was barely down when Dawn took matters into her own hands and steered Cornelius straight toward Krissy. "Krissy, this is Neil. Neil this is Krissy. You should make out," she told them, then walked away.
"We talked for a few minutes right then," said Krissy, who grew up in Ambler and earned her dramatic arts degree at Coastal Carolina University. "We had a drink at the bar in the lobby."
Cornelius did not mind being pulled away from his date. "She wasn't into the theater, and she had been complaining all night that she had to get home and finish studying," he said.
Krissy and Cornelius promised to meet up at the after-party. Cornelius told his date she was free to go home and study, and walked her to a cab.
Cornelius, who had recently earned an industrial arts degree from the University of the Arts, found Krissy at Coco's, and they talked until the after-party wound down.
"Can I walk you home?" he asked. They kissed for the first time that night, outside Krissy's Locust Street apartment.
How does forever sound?
Matchmaker Dawn was right. Krissy and Cornelius - now the associate ticketing services manager and a carpenter, respectively, at the Walnut - bought a house in Passyunk Square in 2008.
On a Saturday afternoon in April 2010, Krissy stood before the upstairs closet given over entirely to her collection of Lush soaps. It was time for a new bar, and she sniffed a few of the squares with pleasure. "Do you want Sunny Citrus or Bohemian?" she asked Cornelius.
"I don't know," said Cornelius, who Krissy noticed was strangely nervous. "What do you like?"
"I want to know what you like," Krissy said.
"I like you," Cornelius told her.
