Philip Andrew Kuntz and Patricia Lynn Parent first met as across-the-street neighbors in Parsippany, N.J., when both were 3 years old. “She wasn’t exactly the girl next door, but,” Mr. Kuntz said, “close enough.” Kelly Craig Heflin and Carol Diane McNitt were well into adulthood when they met at a public garden in Edgewater, Md.,…
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Though Truett Clay Manning matched with Bimal Jayprakash Patel on the dating app Bumble, Mr. Manning did not lift a finger to do so. His friend Marette Gillen was the one who swiped right on Mr. Patel’s profile, on Mr. Manning’s behalf, in November 2018. Despite their presences on the app, neither man was that…
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“Stringing along,” “states by attractions” and “famous pairs” were among the categories on the episode of “Jeopardy!” that featured Sarah Elizabeth Bauer and William Greer Mackebee as contestants. Though it would take several years, that appearance would set the two on a course to pairing up themselves. The episode, which aired as part of the…
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At work, the headline flashed across my social media feed: “Man with Incredible Beard in Desperate Need of Kidney.” I closed a tab of political chatter and read the heart-rending plea. The wife of the man with the incredible beard was asking the universe to send her someone who would donate a kidney and save…
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It wasn’t long after James Yihua Xi and Suzanna S. Sone arrived at the Washington dive bar he had suggested for their first date in February 2019 when Mr. Xi realized the location was all wrong. “She was amazing, so I felt like she deserved a much nicer bar than the one I took her…
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In May 2021, Andrew Ifits Hughes proposed to Lauren Rosalie Beard from a lofty perch: the summit of Mount Everest. He dropped to one knee after unfurling a small orange flag inscribed with the words “Lauren, will you marry me?” Perhaps even more notable is the fact that Ms. Beard wasn’t there. Her answer (yes)…
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On their first date last December, Joan Marie Klein made a confession to Jack William Pinto: She was not 79-years-old, as she had said, but 87. “I knew nobody’s going to call a woman who says she’s 87,” Ms. Klein said. “And actually, I confirmed that with Jack.” Then 88, Mr. Pinto — who had…
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Millions of children around the world, most of them in the poorest countries, missed some or all of their childhood vaccinations over the past two years because of a combination of conflicts, climate emergencies, misinformation campaigns, pandemic lockdowns and Covid vaccination efforts that diverted resources, according to a new analysis from Unicef, the United Nations…
DetailsThis ‘woman’s disease’ doesn’t get a lot of research funding, but the medical establishment has made strides in developing new drugs and devices to combat migraine over the last five years.
Being a grown-up is so expensive these days. Maybe you’re out of work, paying off student loans, scrimping to pay for child care or setting aside money for a new car or a Tuscan vacation. Whatever the reason, so many of us are looking for ways to save money, and as food prices continue to…
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