Though Truett Clay Manning matched with Bimal Jayprakash Patel on the dating app Bumble, Mr. Manning did not lift a finger to do so. His friend Marette Gillen was the one who swiped right on Mr. Patel’s profile, on Mr. Manning’s behalf, in November 2018. Despite their presences on the app, neither man was that…
“Stringing along,” “states by attractions” and “famous pairs” were among the categories on the episode of “Jeopardy!” that featured Sarah Elizabeth Bauer and William Greer Mackebee as contestants. Though it would take several years, that appearance would set the two on a course to pairing up themselves. The episode, which aired as part of the…
At work, the headline flashed across my social media feed: “Man with Incredible Beard in Desperate Need of Kidney.” I closed a tab of political chatter and read the heart-rending plea. The wife of the man with the incredible beard was asking the universe to send her someone who would donate a kidney and save…
It wasn’t long after James Yihua Xi and Suzanna S. Sone arrived at the Washington dive bar he had suggested for their first date in February 2019 when Mr. Xi realized the location was all wrong. “She was amazing, so I felt like she deserved a much nicer bar than the one I took her…
In May 2021, Andrew Ifits Hughes proposed to Lauren Rosalie Beard from a lofty perch: the summit of Mount Everest. He dropped to one knee after unfurling a small orange flag inscribed with the words “Lauren, will you marry me?” Perhaps even more notable is the fact that Ms. Beard wasn’t there. Her answer (yes)…
On their first date last December, Joan Marie Klein made a confession to Jack William Pinto: She was not 79-years-old, as she had said, but 87. “I knew nobody’s going to call a woman who says she’s 87,” Ms. Klein said. “And actually, I confirmed that with Jack.” Then 88, Mr. Pinto — who had…