Amanda Kay Cook was tired of relationships that went nowhere. So, in October 2020, she drew up three nonnegotiables and rounded up 30 matches — “like on ‘The Bachelorette,’” said Ms. Cook, 29 — mainly from the dating apps Tinder, Hinge and Bumble, and a few from friends. She rattled off her three nonnegotiables —…
In June, my husband and I found out we were pregnant. It would become the third baby we would lose in the last two years. I call her a baby although I know she was an embryo, her heartbeat stilled at six weeks and two days. I call her a baby because I can feel…
Mary Morton, a 99-year-old retired assistant principal in the Bronx, N.Y., wanted to live long enough to watch Melanie Renee White, her granddaughter, walk down the aisle with her then longtime boyfriend, Andrew R. Trotter. “I hope my eyes are still open by the time y’all get married,” she told Ms. White while the couple…