Elena Isabel Bauer and Joshua Daniel Fagel’s relationship started as what they both refer to as a “D.F.M.O.,” or a “dance floor make out.” They met April 15, 2016, on the “gross, grimy dance floor” at Mr. Fagel’s fraternity house, Sigma Nu, on Stanford’s campus. “Our feet were sticking to the floor,” Mr. Fagel said.…
Roland John Passaro looks back at his time growing up in the 1950s with a sort of wistful tenderness, especially when it comes to the time he spent with his first crush, Elaine Hall. The two met in the ninth grade in 1950 at what was then called Harrison-Morton Junior High School in Allentown, Pa.…
In August 2018, Svetlana Dotsenko and Fabián Alejandro Poliak were visiting the Peterhof palace complex in St. Petersburg, Russia, when Mr. Poliak decided to make a move. “I’m not leaving these grounds without trying for a kiss,” Mr. Poliak recalled thinking to himself. A short while later, they were running through the palace gardens in…
What tore us apart was displayed on a table in the courtroom — a phone. As the judge stated for the record, I was appearing for my divorce “telephonically.” This was 17 years ago, pre-Zoom. From my home in Oakland, Calif., 2,000 miles from the Midwestern courtroom where my husband sat, I pressed the receiver…