Janet Silver-Ghent and Allen Podell pose for a photograph at their home in Palo Alto, July 15, 2024. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Janet Silver-Ghent and Allen Podell pose for a photograph at their home in Palo Alto, July 15, 2024. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)

“Love Atop a Keyboard,” the second episode of “Such a Match!,” tells the humorous and serendipitous love story of Janet and Allen, which inspired this podcast!

In 1999, Janet, a copy editor at the Jewish Bulletin (this publication’s previous name), was in her 50s, divorced and hopelessly single. She had almost given up on finding her beshert. But, to fulfill a New Year’s resolution, she took one last try to find “Mr. Right” and placed her very last personals ad in the Bulletin, which led to a first date straight out of a rom-com, and a revealing memoir about their late-life love story.

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Emma Goss is J.'s senior reporter. She is a Bay Area native and an alum of Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School and Kehillah Jewish High School. Emma also reports for NBC Bay Area. Follow her on Twitter @EmmaAudreyGoss.