How do you choose where you’re going? It depends. Every trip is different. I went to Southeast Asia a few years ago because I wanted to experience it in my 40s and see how it compared with my experience in my 20s. I got married during the pandemic, and we went to see my wife’s…
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For generations of most American families, getting children vaccinated was just something to check off on the list of back-to-school chores. But after the ferocious battles over Covid shots of the past two years, simmering resistance to general school vaccine mandates has grown significantly. Now, 35 percent of parents oppose requirements that children receive routine…
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Like so many couples before them, Constance Kelly Daniels and Emir Muhovic met at a bar. But they had taken very different paths to end up there. Ms. Daniels, who goes by Kelly, was born and raised in Panama City, Fla. Mr. Muhovic fled his home in war-torn Bosnia in 1992, when he was just…
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After his first date with Shawn Patrick Lamb in January 2019, Jarrold Jenn-yu Wong began to cry. “It was first time I felt I could actually be loved unconditionally for who I am,” he said. Dating had never brought him much joy. “It was not for lack of trying,” said Mr. Wong, known to friends…
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When Kyle Dixon Moore met Courtney Midge Seamon the week before Thanksgiving seven years ago, he knew he had to act quickly to make an impression on her before leaving town for the holiday. The two connected through Kelly McFarland, Ms. Seamon’s cousin and current business partner and also a friend of Mr. Moore, on…
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After matching on several dating sites in 2017, Joseph Michael Flaum was becoming increasingly interested in Allison Dana Port. She was feeling overwhelmed, however, not by Mr. Flaum but the barrage of messages she was continually receiving through the apps. So, when Mr. Flaum, 38, sent Ms. Port, 35, a message, she didn’t respond. Then,…
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Every year at Christmas, my father has a ritual. He pours a large tumbler of Scotch, goes into his bedroom, shuts the door and listens to tapes I made of conversations with my grandma before she died 22 years ago. Back when her death was still raw, he would listen and cry. “Now I’m at…
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Jeremy MoellerGetty Images When the weather starts to dip down below freezing, our first instinct is to bundle up, and what better way to do that than with a women’s wrap coat? Wrap coats are often characterized by their oversized and unstructured silhouette held in place by a belt made of the same material. With…
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Often heard as a Christmas carol, Christina Rossetti’s poem “In the Bleak Midwinter” imagines the Nativity scene and closes with the question of what to bring as an offering. She first answers, “If I were a shepherd, I would bring a lamb,” and concludes by offering her heart. Both gifts — a prized feast and…
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