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On an appearance last Tuesday on The Late Show, Marcia Cross (Bree Van De Kamp) talked about how she met her husband-to-be Tom Mahoney. She didn't want to give away too many details, but host David Letterman gradually extracted more and more of a tale of a flower shop, stalking and matchmaking.

"I was just walking across the street, and I saw this man in a flower shop from behind and he was writing a note," she told Letterman, when asked how she first met him. But "met" may be an exaggeration, as Cross gradually explained. "I was just completely drawn to him, so I followed him around the shop and—" at this point the audience laughed. "What's so funny? ... You gotta keep your eyes open—and I liked the way he talked to the shop people and he was very specific about the flowers he was ordering and where he wanted them delivered, and he had this lovely voice. I didn't really see him from the front for a little while... I know that sounds odd, but I just really liked who he was."

At this point Letterman suggested she may be a stalker. "I sort of did look like a stalker," she conceded, "because I had this funny tweed hat on and I usually look kind of frumpy ... and I actually left before he saw me." Letterman is confused that Cross left. How did they meet? "I sort of like to keep that secret, you can sort of decide how you think we might have hooked up yourself."

However, Letterman is having none of it. "No no no, that's not good enough", he said. Cross elaborated she didn't make a move because "he could have been buying flowers for his mother, but I thought probably he wasn't. So I didn't want to be that forward." But after admitting she spoke to him "two weeks later", Letterman continued to press for details. "We're missing something here," he said.

So Cross finally relented and told him the rest of the story. "I was leaving the flower shop and there was [a shop assistant] smoking a cigarette, and I said 'Who's that man?', thinking it was some famous person and perhaps I got drawn in by their charisma. And she said 'Oh he's no one', which in LA means he's not in the business. And so I started to leave, and then she said 'Do you want to leave your phone number?'" At this point Letterman reacted to that comment. "Not for her!" laughed Cross. "I wrote my number and 'If it doesn't work out...' because I didn't want to, you know, step on anyone's toes."

Mahoney did return the call, two weeks later. "He called in the middle of Golden Globe nomination morning. So I was getting all these congratulatory phone calls, and he called and didn't say anything about it. So I was actually incredibly pleased, because he wasn't in the business."

After telling the entire story, Cross then reacted with surprise. "Dave, you're getting everything out of me here! What's going on here?"

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