Some TikTok creators have become successful on the video platform by dancing, singing or performing everyday tasks. Miles Laflin has amassed 11 million followers by cleaning pools. Better known by his moniker, @thep00lguy, Mr. Laflin, a swimming pool engineer from Britain, posts short videos to his channel that take viewers through the often laborious process…
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PARIS — On a recent sunny afternoon, a cluster of young women in short dresses and high boots crowded into a special elevator at Cheval Blanc, a new hotel in the La Samaritaine complex along the Seine, and were whisked up to the restaurant Le Tout-Paris. Reinvented as a Pop-inspired contemporary brasserie offering classics like…
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A year into his relationship with Abigail Pesta, Joel Oestreich, a political science professor at Drexel University in Philadelphia, moved to Africa. Ms. Pesta, 52, a Philadelphia-based journalist and author, had mixed feelings about his departure. “It was sad to see him go,” she said, but she also wanted him to enjoy the experience —…
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Cortney Norris and Thomas Lowery weren’t supposed to go on a date. Ms. Norris, 38, a Latin teacher at the Dalton School on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, had plans with a friend to see the live taping of the Mortified Podcast in March 2018. Mr. Lowery, 35, a video producer at Ted Productions, was also…
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Elizabeth Catherine Wessel is definitely a love-me-love-my-dog person. So she couldn’t be happier when Trooper upstaged her in February 2017 after Matthew Stephen Ross spotted their photo on the dating app Hinge. “That’s not even fair how cute she is,” messaged Mr. Ross, smitten with Trooper, her Cavapoo, in all her Muppet-like glory. Mr. Ross,…
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Cary Gitter texted his friend Sylvia Khoury out of the blue in September 2017 to ask about her friend Meghan VanArsdalen. “Hey, whatever happened to your friend Meghan,” he asked, one Saturday evening while at a West Village bar in Manhattan. Ms. Khoury, a noted playwright, had in fact tried to casually set them up…
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Christopher Michael Repotski and Michael Sean McClenney have been traveling to Provincetown, Mass., for Labor Day every year since 2016. So, it made perfect sense for their wedding to be there, too, with tea dances and parasols included. The couple, who now reside in Atlanta, met while in the Atlanta Gay Men’s Chorus. Mr. Repotski,…
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Soon after he began dating Rexanah Wyse, Eric Morrissette began receiving text messages that he found suspicious. The messages would arrive early in the morning, around 4 or 5 a.m. They were from Ms. Wyse. Her texts would always convey some kind of positive message, something like, “Good morning, today’s a great day for a…
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Establishing a joint Google calendar may not be a standard marker of a flourishing romance, but for Efrain Guerrero and James Jones, it stood in just fine for a more customary expression of commitment. The two men met in September 2017 through the dating app Scruff, and had their first date at Rendezvous, a restaurant…
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Amy Ogbonna and Samuel Oiwoh both swiped right on the dating app Tinder in December 2014, but neither of them messaged the other. Three weeks later, Ms. Ogbonna spotted Mr. Oiwoh at a party. She walked up to him and asked if he was the guy who didn’t talk to her on the app. “I…
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