Andy Eichar and Gloria Nlewedim were both 20-something legislative staff assistants when they first encountered each other on a Rayburn House Office Building elevator.
The air felt charged, the small, wood-paneled car filling with Gloria’s warm, throaty laughter. Andy, captivated by Gloria’s “beautiful full-face smile,” slyly eyed the young woman’s ID badge. “I was trying to figure out whose office I needed to stop by,” said Eichar, who was then a staff assistant to Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro .
The dating scene on Capitol Hill had its perils, too. “Especially with the Hill, I think that there’s a culture of, like, social climbing and being really, really busy with work, never really even having the ability to turn it on and off kind of thing,” Leigh observed.Around the time Andy encountered her on the elevator, Gloria was going through a rough period. At 22, life wasn’t all she had hoped it would be.
Gloria shuffled through Andy’s photos — there he was smiling in sunglasses as he relaxed on a boat in a lake; in another his bright hazel eyes looked into the camera as he cuddled a black cat. “I thought he was very handsome looking,” Gloria said. But was the message creepy, like he’d been spying on her? Hmmm.She mulled a bit and decided to take a chance. “Hahaha geez, I’m gonna have to start taking the stairs if I’m becoming an elevator regular,” she jested in response.
On Jan. 6, their deepening love was brought into relief. As insurgents attacked the Capitol, Gloria was locked down in the Longworth House Office Building while Andyanxiously watched the violence unfold at home. “We didn’t know at the time whether they were going to be able to break through and get to the Longworth building,” Gloria said.“I was just so worried about Gloria, and scared. I didn’t know what was going on,” Andy said.When the lockdown ended at 11 p.m.
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