For Erik Brooks, meeting Jill Martin on their first date at the O Ya restaurant in Manhattan was like encountering a force of nature. “Jill is like a tornado, she’s so full of energy,” he said. “I thought, all right, here we go. This is going to be exciting.” Each was so swept away by…
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As Josh’s bride approached him at the altar, a strange voice rose from my psyche, catching me by surprise. “There goes your husband,” it said. And for a second I felt certain that Josh, now minutes from saying, “I do,” was supposed to be marrying me. This moment of prescience, while jarring, was surprisingly easy…
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Though Vienna’s vineyards are within city limits, they can feel a world away. Among the rows of grapes on the edges of the Austrian capital, the sounds and action of 1.9 million people are replaced by rocky paths, the chatter of crickets and a general calm. That is, until September begins. As fall and the…
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MILAN — What is it with inflation? Of all the crises currently roiling the globe that might capture the minds of designers, this is the pain point that is turning into a trend? Apparently so, judging from the opening days of the Milan shows. First, Glenn Martens of Diesel set his show around a quartet…
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But in July 2020, Ms. Jenkins needed advice on how to counsel someone dealing with mental health issues. One day, while on Facebook, she noticed that Mr. Brown was a supervisor for a mental health company in Summerville, S.C. Despite her reluctance to contact him, she thought he would be able to offer her expert…
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On the day that Cait Josephine McDonagh was born, David Thomas Doherty was among the kindergarten classmates of Ms. McDonagh’s oldest brother who signed a card welcoming her into the world. “I’ve known her forever,” Mr. Doherty said. “But, obviously, she was a lot younger than me, and I never in a million years thought…
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That night, Keisha Lance Bottoms, former mayor of Atlanta, “gave a passionate speech — her ‘if you care about this city, go home’ speech,’” Mr. Smith said. “We watched it, and we didn’t really talk about it. In some ways, we didn’t need to, because there was this sense that we both were feeling something…
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Lauren Lazare Shell wasn’t looking for love when she met Seth Michael Ratner on a Disney cruise in February 2014. Ms. Shell, who at the time was separated from her previous husband and casually dating someone else, had come on the cruise with her two sons. Mr. Ratner, then a recently divorced father of a…
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Cedric Buchet As a born and raised Midwesterner, I know what it means to be cold—and not be prepared for the imminent wind chill to pass through your body like a soul-stealing ghost (it sounds dramatic, but trust me on this one). Unless you happen to live somewhere where winter simply feels like “cold summer,”…
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