Cancer makes an odd building block in a relationship. But for Vera Golosker and Mark Rafael Gilfix it would become a keystone. The two, both lawyers, met in 2013 at a poolside fund-raiser in Los Angeles. A first date followed, which Mr. Golosker judged promising. A second date, though, lacked luster. Then, he said, “She…
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Two months later, in March 2019, he demonstrated just how serious he was when Ms. Chatterjee’s father developed pneumonia. He died in Kolkata, India, where Ms. Chatterjee grew up, later that month. When she returned to the United States after grieving with family in India, being home alone was a struggle. “Sandeep mitigated my pain,”…
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“I was making the biggest mistake if I didn’t try now,” he recalled thinking. Weeks later, when Dr. Yee took a trip to New York to visit family in December, Mr. Ma met her in the city, where he confessed his feelings for her. In January 2019, he asked her to be his girlfriend. By…
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SEOUL — The coronavirus has been spreading across North Korea “at an explosive rate” since late last month, killing six people and leaving 187,800 people in quarantine, the country’s state media reported on Friday. The country’s health officials made the rare admission of an emerging public health crisis while its leader, Kim Jong-un, was visiting…
DetailsDogs are “really good at reading our emotions,” says one expert. But we’re not so good at reading theirs.
Everett CollectionEverett A quick scroll through your TikTok feed and there’s a high chance you’ll stumble across someone who’s gone full coastal grandmother. The viral term, coined by TikToker Lex Nicoleta, describes the coastal grandmother aesthetic as, “If you love Nancy Meyers movies, coastal vibes, recipes and cooking, Ina Garten, cozy interiors, and more, there’s…
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With masking and vaccination requirements largely dropped in Italy and summer approaching, crowds of travelers have begun to return to Rome’s Centro Storico — the area most dependent on tourism and the hardest hit by the pandemic — according to hoteliers and others working near Rome’s iconic spots. “Trevi Square and the whole center of…
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There were some proverbial elephants in the room: China’s ongoing Covid crisis and the war in Ukraine were not discussed. But J. Stephen Morrison, an expert in global health at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said the commitments by Group of 7 nations reflected the strengthening of bonds between countries allied against Russia…
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In the ever-expanding multiverse, there is a version of me smashing away at a keyboard with her feet, doling out dos and don’ts to the masses as that world’s Dear Abby. But here in our reality, I’m Tanya, an editor at New York Times Cooking and Tejal’s editor on The Veggie. And for better or…
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