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Web site turns missed connection into romance

A New Year’s Eve love story lives to see another chapter, just as both characters thought the prologue and epilogue were one and the same. Anne Huynh and Mike Goldstein found each other at a New York City party after “Auld Lang Syne” had been sung, but parted ways without exchanging numbers as the sun came up on New Year’s Day. And that prompted Huynh, a 22-year-old actress, to try to reco
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A New Year’s Eve love story lives to see another chapter, just as both characters thought the prologue and epilogue were one and the same.

Anne Huynh and Mike Goldstein found each other at a New York City party after “Auld Lang Syne” had been sung, but parted ways without exchanging numbers as the sun came up on New Year’s Day.

And that prompted Huynh, a 22-year-old actress, to try to reconnect with the 32-year-old guitarist through a Missed Connections ad on the popular Web site Craigslist.

“I was stuck at this lame party and I walked outside for some air and looked across the balcony and there he was in his tuxedo playing guitar,” Huynh told TODAY’s Natalie Morales on Wednesday. “And I was like, ‘I want that one.’”

Huynh crashed the Upper West Side party with some friends and immediately approached Goldstein. The conversation began with a request for a Smashing Pumpkins song, but evolved into something more. Huynh did little to mask her feelings.

Goldstein said he was into her, too.

“Who wouldn’t be?” he said.

A kiss was shared at about 3 a.m.

“I asked, did you kiss anyone at midnight and he was like, ‘No, did you?’”

But by party’s end, the two new lovebirds somehow flew off in different directions.

And why didn’t Huynh ask for Goldstein’s number?

“Because I’m a girl,” she told Morales.

But she was still proactive. Missing her possible soul mate, Huynh took out an ad on Craigslist reading: “Mike, you kissed me at a house party on New Year’s. I walked away without giving you my phone number.

“You never asked for it. But I want to give it to you. Love, A.”

Goldstein never saw the ad. But the New York Post did and printed a story to help facilitate a reunion. Goldstein didn’t see that, either.

But a friend of his did.

“He said, ‘Hey, there’s an article in the paper and I think it’s about you,’” Goldstein recalled.

The New York Post got the couple together last week at the midtown lounge Kanvas, with reporter and photographer in tow. Finally, numbers were exchanged.

And another kiss?

“Maybe,” Goldstein said coyly.

TODAY offered the couple a free lunch at Fresco by Scotto in midtown Manhattan — free as in food and as in free of extra company. The couple graciously accepted the invite.

And maybe, just maybe, another chapter will follow.

Said Goldstein: “Once the paparazzi leave us alone, we’ll see what happens.”