By the time Luis Solis met Hailey Nicole Terrell last December, he had been divorced for 10 years and had become a master of the short-term relationship. Mr. Solis, 62, said he developed several “relationship management policies,” for keeping the people he was dating at a comfortable distance. He avoided the word “girlfriend” and instead…
A federal panel will decide on Friday whether to recommend approval of a controversial but potentially promising Alzheimers drug, which would be the first to come to market in nearly two decades. The drug, aducanumab, would not stop or reverse dementia, but some evidence suggests it can slow the progression of memory and thinking problems…
When a mutual friend told Krishna Kant that Anne Kim needed help understanding cloud infrastructure, she was actually being sly. “Our mutual friend knew that if she tried to set me up with anyone, I would have simply not gone along with it,” said Mr. Kant, 45, a senior network engineer in Los Angeles for…
Timah Kabba had to brace herself on her first date with Gaby Núñez Santiago at Lord Hobo, a restaurant in Cambridge, Mass., in May 2018. “I don’t really catch feelings,” she said. “Definitely not in the beginning. But the light in there was really good, and when we sat down across from each other I…
Andrew Todd Eddins walked into an L.G.B.T.Q. tennis party in November 2003 in the Bronx near Yankee Stadium, with some trepidation, or as he put it: “I was like a deer in headlights in tennis gear.” A week earlier a friend had called him out of the blue saying he had signed them up for…
On a July day in 2011, Lacey Marie Cunningham was sitting in Harbor Perk Coffee Shop in Ashtabula, Ohio, when she noticed a new barista. Ms. Cunningham was a regular at Harbor Perk, where she would often read and study. She had recently graduated from Warren Wilson College outside of Asheville, N.C., and was back…
After seeing Jennifer Miles in a bikini in 1998 while mowing her father’s lawn on Lake Wawasee in Indiana, 15-year-old Nate Goldenberg was confident enough to ask her on a date. “I was 100 percent in love,” said Mr. Goldenberg, now 37, and the general manager of Grand Design RV in Elkhart County, Ind. “Her…
When Mitchel Aaron Scott and Evelyn Ruth Danforth were first introduced in January 2011 at a dorm party their junior year at Stanford, the sparks didn’t exactly fly. A few weeks before the start of their senior year, the pair, who were casual acquaintances, found themselves on an abandoned campus training together to be residential…
In early March, Liana Elizabeth Cramer and Samuel Leonard Aronson traveled to a remote lodge in South Africa. Shortly after their arrival, they met two guides dressed in green shirts, khakis and thick boots. Mr. Aronson explained to Ms. Cramer that the guides, who drove a modified Toyota Land Cruiser with rugged tires and no…
When Cleo Samuel came across Tony Ryals’s profile on eHarmony in September 2018, she liked it so much that she sent him a smile emoji and a couple of winks. Ms. Samuel did not know that by the time she began flirting with Mr. Ryals, he had already pulled the plug, albeit temporarily, on his…