Rebekah Headen fell in love with Tony Hernandez years before she actually met him. Not only that, it was love at first sight. “Where did you get that beautiful painting?” Ms. Headen, 57, who is known as Becky, recalled asking a neighbor who had moved from Atlanta to Charlotte, N.C., where she lives, in 2001.…
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Dr. Neal Frederic Kassell and Meredith Jung-En Woo, best of friends for years, were ambivalent about marriage as recently as three months ago. But on Sept. 9, while sitting next to each other on an airplane in relative silence, Dr. Kassell leaned over to say something to Ms. Woo, who was reading a book. “Hey,…
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It didn’t take long for Melissa Shields to envision a future with Holly Lorka after they met in July 2019. When Ms. Shields got home that night, she had what she calls “clicks,” or pictures in her head of all the things the two might do together, like get married, have children and even be…
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The only way to stop the heavy bleeding is to end the pregnancy and contract the uterus, Dr. Moayedi said. Time is of the essence. “Every OB-GYN has cared for someone who has died from a hemorrhage,” she said. “If someone is hemorrhaging while miscarrying, how long do I have to wait?” Even if the…
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My daughter was born at the beginning of the pandemic — March 17, 2020. Family soon meant something completely different to us. Survival felt more real to us than it ever had. We hunkered down and became a tight-knit family in our nest and stayed as safe as we could. Never a nester, I was…
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After a few days of intense, almost athletic eating and drinking with my family, I crave something delicious but basic. So after all the big, celebratory holiday dinners this week, and after several days of happily eating leftover pie for breakfast, it’ll be time for … a big pot of khichdi. I usually make it…
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The organization recently ran a vaccine clinic in the heavily Polish and Latino communities, where some have hesitated to get their children vaccinated. MariCarmen Zavala brought her 8-year-old son, Louis Perez. “It’s really important for me to get the vaccine for him so that my son is able to do the activities that he likes…
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Good morning. I don’t generally write to you on Thursdays, but I thought I’d make an exception today on account of how it’s Thanksgiving and some of you may be freaking out — all the cooking; all the people; all of [gestures] this. I’m here to tell you: Everything’s going to be all right. Is…
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The holiday shopping season has arrived, and retailers are ringing it in by doing everything from cutting prices to stocking showrooms to lure back customers who stayed at home last year. What the biggest of them are not doing is the one thing the White House and many public health experts have asked them to:…
DetailsThere’s a reason you turn into an eating machine on Thanksgiving. It’s biology!