Elyse Welles was traveling from Athens to Newark this spring when it finally happened: She was pulled aside for an additional security screening at her gate. After some time searching through Ms. Welles’s backpack, the agent eventually grabbed a bullet-shaped vibrator from the bag and brandished it in the air. “Is this an e-cigarette?” the…
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For Devin Kasota Glaser and Alizeh Sadruddin Bhojani, the plan was to have a short fling. When they met in October 2016 at a mutual friend’s birthday party in Seattle, Ms. Bhojani was in her third year of law school at the University of Washington, and had a job lined up in New York. Though…
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While dancing around a bonfire to the rhythms of a drum circle in May 2013, Melody Christine Dankemeyer, who goes by the name Melody Sage, felt “a tingling rush of energy” course through her body. It was at that moment when she turned around and caught sight of Rosco Kickingstone Siragusa, who goes by Rosco…
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“Can I come over?” It was a simple text. One I probably shouldn’t have been feeling so anxious about having sent as I drove to Matt’s house on the west side of Los Angeles after a late night at the office. But for a Muslim woman in her late 20s who had lived her entire…
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Blair Bryant Dawson would be chatted up by many patrons when she worked as a bartender at Catfish in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. But her banter with Daniel Sean Ogorzalek was always a cut above the rest. “You have to have an impeccable repartee to stand out to a bartender who’s chatting with funny patrons regularly,”…
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Maxwell Quested Wolkin thought he had found a fellow baseball fan when he noticed Olivia Ida Russin was wearing a Brooklyn Dodgers jacket in a photo on her OkCupid profile. But after they connected on the dating website in May 2014, he learned, to his dismay, that she was more a fan of the jacket…
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Christopher Michael Kirchhoff let his experience working with high-level military officials guide him when he started online dating in 2019. “I approached it sort of like military planning,” said Dr. Kirchhoff, who was a director for strategic planning at the National Security Council during the Obama administration and holds a Ph.D. in social and political…
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A case of polio has been identified in an unvaccinated adult man in Rockland County, officials said. The New York State Department of Health and its Rockland County counterpart confirmed that the infection was transmitted from someone who received the oral polio vaccine, which has not been administered in the United States since 2000. Officials…
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ROME — Customers in the Rome bookstore paid no attention to the circular stickers on the floor instructing them to stamp out Covid by maintaining “a distance of at least 1 meter.” “These are things from the past,” said Silvia Giuliano, 45, who wore no mask as she browsed paperbacks. She described the red signs,…
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