Our third date lasted 79 days — we were in paradise, but it felt like hell

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love at first lockdown. In February 2020, New Yorkers Matt Robertson and Khani Le met on Hinge and had a great first date at an Indian restaurant.

The fun continued at an axe throwing range for their second date.For their third outing, Robertson, now 34 and a marketing executive, and Le, 32 and a publicist, decided they should go on an adventure.

Over text, Robertson suggested they go on a five-day vacation to Guanacaste, Costa Rica.“You only live once,” he remembers saying to himself in order to justify the risk, “What’s the worst that could happen?”Le was game — despite some warnings from friends.“I said yes, just throwing caution to the wind,” she said, adding, “I was kind of like, ‘Go with the flow and see what happens.'”On March 17, they boarded a Delta flight at JFK.They enjoyed three days of ziplining and cocktails at an all-inclusive resort, but the day before they were to return, they learned that their flights were canceled indefinitely as a result of the coronavirus shutdown in the US.

Their third date turned into both a 79-day nightmare — and the beginning of a long-term romance. The pair’s ordeal is the subject of a new Netflix documentary “Longest Third Date,” out Tuesday.“It was a crazy, surreal experience,” Robertson told The Post.