When Leslie Arffa was asked what she thought were Samir Doshi’s best qualities, she cleared her throat, and hesitated with evident emotion. “He’s incredibly kind and thoughtful,” she said. “I never met anyone before that I never got tired of spending time with.” Ms. Arffa added that he was “also very attentive, and a very…
A wedding in Hawaii usually conjures images of sandy white beaches and clear blue waters. But Alexa Wilhelm and Ikaika Sarme opted to marry at Kahua Ranch, a working cattle ranch on the Big Island, instead. “We wanted something that felt more like the Hawaii Ikaika knew growing up,” Ms. Wilhelm said. “We wanted a…
On what they considered their first official date — a Halloween party in 2012 at a pub in New Haven, Conn. — Matthew Sipe and Ryan Watzel were in costume. Mr. Sipe was dressed as Pikachu, the anime character from the Pokemon franchise. Mr. Watzel was an unspecified character from “Ghostbusters,” complete with what Mr.…
The following weekend, she and Mr. Wiley and other classmates went out for a night on the town, and while they were out, the two ended up talking alone. She invited him back to her place to catch up on the day’s sports highlights. They shared a first kiss that night, and, within a month,…
In September 2017, Joseph Ernest Glisson Deaux checked his phone during work and saw a text from a woman he had barely spoken to over the last few years, Marissa Beth Arnold. He and Ms. Arnold had met in April 2014 at a work event and dated for a few months, but before their relationship…
Justin Cooke and Erik Wallin couldn’t get married without showing their 194 guests around Brooklyn. It wasn’t a long trek, only about a mile along the Brooklyn Heights promenade from St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church, the site of their wedding ceremony, to St. Ann’s Warehouse, the performing arts center in Dumbo. But it…
In November 2017, Varun Anand sat next to Hannah Smith at a bar in Manhattan’s West Village. They were attending the going-away party of a friend who Mr. Anand had worked with in 2016 on the Clinton presidential campaign, and who Ms. Smith worked with in 2012 on the Obama campaign. “We covered a ton…
The first time Dana Rhoden spent time with Michael Baran was in 2010 at a mutual friend’s wedding in Coral Gables, Fla. “We danced all night and innocently kissed,” said Ms. Rhoden, now 43, and the owner of The Dana Agency, a public relations firm in Miami. “Nothing else happened because I was in a…
It all started at a bar on St. Patrick’s Day in 2014. Valeria Estefania Dueñas was at the Brass Monkey in Washington celebrating her cousin’s birthday. John Harrison Garfinkel was there for St. Patrick’s Day drinks with friends. “I saw Valeria — and Valeria’s about 5-foot-5 — so she’s not short, but she’s having trouble…
So the government doubled its army of so-called work coaches, who help people on unemployment benefits find jobs. It hired 13,500 more coaches, a bigger force than was marshaled after the Great Recession in 2008. In the end, the fallout was much less severe. After the British Treasury extended the furlough program, unemployment peaked at…