My Sister and I Didn’t Speak for Decades. Could a Baby Change That?
Estrangement felt like a hole that was impossible to fill. The birth of my daughter provided the impetus to try.
After 25 Years of Practice, They Decided to Make It Legal
Over this past Thanksgiving holiday, Timothy Craig Braun and Peter David Arnold broke the news to their 19-year-old fraternal twin daughters: After 25 years together, they were finally getting married. It was a surprise announcement since the couple, who live in Montclair, N.J., had always told their daughters that they were already married. “I was…
The Cost of the American Dream? Our Intimacy.
When I went to the office, Fancy would stay home alone all day, so her mother sent a young girl to help her with household chores. This was a source of nuisance to me. When I returned home from work, Fancy would open the door, and I would carry her in my arms to the…
They Fell in Love After She ‘Bamboozled’ Him.
Once Mr. Caneco responded, he displayed what she considered a weirdness of his own: After only a few messages, he asked to switch to phone calls. “I’m somebody who only talks on the phone for work,” she said. Overcoming that aversion for Mr. Caneco seemed worth it, though. His devotion to Beanhead, whose mystery illness…
After Divorcing, They Turned to Each Other. Again.
After a brief introduction at La Terrasse, a bar on the University of Pennsylvania’s campus that has since closed, on Sept. 29, 1983, Pamela Ann Dillon spent the next few hours hanging on to Stephen Michael Dillon’s every word. “I didn’t want the conversation to stop,” said Ms. Dillon, who had just started her master’s…
They Believed That God Had Brought Them Together
At first, the striking similarities in the Rev. Peter Manning and Garth Wingfield’s life paths made for fun first-date fodder. And then the parallels became too pronounced to chalk up to coincidence. When Mr. Manning first matched with Mr. Wingfield on the dating app Hinge in March 2022, he discovered that they had long run…