A friendship lasting a decade, a first kiss in the ocean, and a post-wedding photo shoot attended by a pod of seals. Chelsea Bruck and Cyril Bennouna’s love story reads much like a fairy-tale romance, with a modern twist. The couple first met as teenagers at New Rochelle High School in New Rochelle, N.Y., when…
“I joined the League and hit a home run,” Jillian Mariutti recently told a friend. Ms. Mariutti, 36, a senior director on the debt and equity financing team at JLL Capital Markets in New York, was not bragging about hitting a ball over a distant wall, but rather, about the good fortune she had in…
RALEIGH, N.C. — Sometimes inspiration flies up and smacks you in the face. That’s what happened to the jewelry maker Susan Reynolds. “One day I was walking my dog and this cicada flew around and hit me in the head, then it fell to my feet,” Ms. Reynolds said. Once they emerge, cicadas have only…
During their first date, at a gallery in Manhattan in November 2019, Caitlin Wynne Fitzmaurice and Richard Lathen Thompson broached the topic of grief. They had matched on the dating app Hinge a week earlier and at the gallery, Ms. Fitzmaurice mentioned that she was from California. When Mr. Thompson asked if she went back…
A heart made of seashells or perhaps the candlelit path leading down to the beach might have suggested the kind of night Dr. Kerry Morrison was about to have on Christmas Eve 2018. But she thought it was going to be simply another evening at her family’s house on the beach in Fairfield, Conn., where…
Troy Alim II didn’t mean to be rude when he interrupted a conversation Whitney Jean was having during a Chicago voter-registration drive in 2016. But when he overheard her asking why they weren’t reaching people in certain communities and how they might be able to fix it, he couldn’t resist. “You could tell she wanted…
And they arrived. In January last year, just before the pandemic, he had a crisis of faith and broke up with me. This time, it lasted. Neither of us entered this relationship thinking it would be forever, but still I was devastated. There is a peculiar kind of bittersweetness to living with a broken heart…
Boryana Dineva was born on May 25, 1983, in Bulgaria. With the fall of Communism in 1989, her family emigrated to Germany, where they lived for a few months in a refugee camp. They also lived in Austria and Russia. After learning English, Boryana spoke a total of five languages, all with an accent, she…
In an Instagram post from Monday that has since been deleted, Mr. Underwood distanced himself from the reality TV show and explained why he received the loan. Lauren Burnham and Arie Luyendyk Jr., a couple who met on the show and married, were funded $20,830, the maximum amount for a P.P.P. loan to a sole…
Canada Goose, the luxury jacket maker, has cultivated an image that is not only chic but also socially conscious. It has forged alliances with environmental advocates and talked of its commitment to high labor standards. These efforts have paid off as the company outgrew its roots as a family enterprise and built a worldwide following…