He then left his apartment in Park Slope, Brooklyn, to stay with Ms. Walsh in Harrisburg, Pa., where she was working at a hospital and had recently begun helping to admit Covid patients. He lived with her for about two months — at first, they stayed in separate bedrooms — before the two moved back…
While Andrew D’Alton Eversden was studying abroad at the American University of Rome in the fall of 2017, one of his professors offered students extra credit for volunteering. He chose to do so at a meet-and-greet event with a local refugee center, which was how he found himself waiting outside an Italian government building in…
Emily Miller always wanted her wedding to have a storybook element. For her, that did not mean a ride in a horse-drawn carriage or a gown fit for a princess. It meant a celebration filled with books. She and her husband Alex Seher, 31, a product manager at a lighting manufacturer, had originally planned to…
When Marissa Branch was 6, she made her first trip to Walt Disney World with her parents and grandparents. It didn’t go well. Everything about the amusement park, from its gargantuan scale to the characters, “absolutely terrified” her, she said. It would take Ms. Branch, 29, nearly two decades to return. That next trip —…
Despite being raised on different continents and residing in different countries, Andrea Mendoza and Victor Aguilera were not deterred from pursuing a relationship after they met in Munich during Oktoberfest in September 2016. “She was pretty, smart, interesting — of course I had to keep in contact, even if the distance was huge,” Mr. Aguilera…
To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. In May 2020, Omar Ruiz found himself with a broken heart. “My wife told me she was no longer in love with me,” and shortly thereafter, the couple, who had been married 11 years, separated. Not only…
Soon after a meal of meatballs, bread, tortellini and Caesar salad, the guests at the wedding of Andrew and Danya Svoboda began to feel strange, according to the authorities in Seminole County, Fla. One man, an uncle of the groom visiting from Michigan, said he felt “tingly.” His heart raced and he was “having crazy…
On Saturday March 12, Bria Pugh found herself wide-awake at 4 a.m. She isn’t an early-riser, nor did she have pre-wedding jitters. This was the call time for her hair and makeup before she walked down the aisle to marry Matthew Norman six hours later. “I was optimistic as long as I could wake up…
When Janelle Ashley Clark accompanied her friend Tiara Lewis to a 2007 service at the Resurrection Deliverance Church International in Yonkers, N.Y., she encountered a “tall, handsome and very talented” man playing the piano. That man was David Christopher Funchess, who said he was attracted to Ms. Clark as soon as she walked through the…
On their first date at a San Francisco restaurant in April 2014, enough wine flowed and sparks flew between Elizabeth Krasney Berman and Richard Alan Fiedotin that the two soon found themselves “giggling like teenagers at the bar,” she said. “I was immediately attracted to him from the start,” added Ms. Berman, 42, the owner…