Holding on Through Tragedy After Tragedy
When Rachel Seals matched with Elliott Averett on Bumble in October 2016, his profile referred to the rugged “Parks and Recreation” character Ron Swanson as a role model. “I told him it wasn’t very Ron Swanson-esque to be on a dating app,” Ms. Seals recalled. But he was very much an outdoorsman. Mr. Averett, 29,…