Nine years ago, a friend from my childhood in South Africa visited me in London. She reads Tarot cards and energies and offered to assess me, hovering her hands over my body, starting with my head. “Wow, you have a lot going on there,” she said. Her hands then hovered over my heart. “Here is…
When Domenico Montanaro finally met Courtney Katharina Norris in August 2018 after a lengthy online correspondence, he was immediately drawn to her positive energy. “You could drop her anywhere and you know she’s going to be the person who brings up the mood,” he said. “I thought, That’s someone I want to be around.” But…
Maria Teresita Angeles Asuncion Cruz celebrated her 80th birthday on Sept. 7, the same day she married Dr. Emilio Parpana Quines Jr. “To wait 80 years, I can’t believe it myself,” Dr. Cruz said. She had never been married before, while Dr. Quines, 83, was a widower. “At first I felt embarrassed — 80?” she…
On Nov. 20, 2021, Mr. Cronin proposed to Mr. Barlowski by inviting him to the venue of their first date under the guise of a Friendsgiving. En route, Mr. Barlowski — oblivious to the proposal — was greeted by friends, who gifted him with one white rose at a time (in the apartment building elevator,…
In late December 2017, Sasha Renata DiGiulian arrived in New Hampshire to ice climb Mount Washington, the highest peak in the Northeast, with Mark Synnott, a fellow professional climber. They were there to be filmed over three days and two nights for the pilot of a docuseries sponsored by Red Bull. Their episode, which took…
As kindergartners in 1967, Kim Susan Hirsh and Jonathan Adam Fingerhut ran through the schoolyard of Thelma L. Sandmeier Elementary School in Springfield, N.J. Ms. Hirsh says she remembers her “pigtails flying” behind her. Ms. Hirsh and Mr. Fingerhut, now both 61, grew up about a mile apart from each other in Springfield. Both are…