Love at first sight?

"We had a mutual friend who was a stage manager at the Living Theater," says Martin. "Janet, my wife, was an art student who was on a scholarship at the New School for Social Research on Sixth Avenue and Twelfth Street. So we were just two blocks apart... He had a little Vespa motor scooter and he took me up to her house on 42nd Street and he gave me a painting that she had done and had given to him to keep for her because she had no locker or no room in her locker."
During the short scooter ride uptown, his friend made up a story that would give Martin an excuse to talk to Janet. "Well," the friend shouted, inventing a story about the painting, "I'll tell her it's become lost and you found it."
It wasn't much of a plan, but Martin said later, "I didn't question this at the time. I just wanted to meet her."
When the two young men arrived at 42nd Street, Martin walked up to the door and presented the painting to Janet, speaking the immortal words, "Here, I found this."
"She knew I was a fool," he admitted. That opinion lasted for some time. Although he worked six nights a week at the theater, the actor took every opportunity he could find to see the young woman. "I was really intrigued with her, obviously, right from the start," he said. "And I just pursued her. I was relentless with her. I just wore down her resistance and eventually moved in."

(from Martin Sheen -- Actor and Activist)