DALLAS — Theresa Rowley's mom was not on board. At least not at first.

The actress and online comedienne was — admittedly — about to take a leap of faith and fly from Dallas to Dublin, Ireland, to spend a week with a man she'd never met who slid into her DMs a few months before.

"I thought, 'You know what? I’ve got some time, I’ve got a little bit of money, I’ll head over to Ireland and see what this guy is about,'" she said.

That guy is Seán Rooney, who lives about an hour and a half west of Dublin, and in fairness to Rowley, it's not like she didn't know him. They'd spent hours texting and talking on FaceTime.

"Theresa wrote back to me, but she kept me at arm's length for a little bit," Rooney recounted. "We just started chatting more and more frequently and started FaceTiming, and t

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