ESPN’s Patrick McEnroe and actress Melissa Errico’s decades-long marriage all started with a spark at the elementary school water fountain.

McEnroe, 59, and Errico, 55, were both students at Buckley Day Country School on Long Island, where McEnroe was best friends with Errico’s brother, Michael.

“He had this younger sister,” McEnroe recalled in an exclusive interview with Us Weekly. “When you’re in eighth grade and the younger sister is in fourth grade, that’s a pretty big age gap. But I always sort of had this little crush on her.”

He continued, “We had a moment that we both remember by the water fountain. We were both walking through school and we had this little moment, this little connection.”

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