Sidney A. Beard and Jill Brown have six cats, three hens, two dogs, two rabbits and a Belgian draft horse, all rescues. “The only one who doesn’t live in the house is the horse because we couldn’t sneak him into the neighborhood,” Ms. Brown said. Mr. Beard grew up in Needville, Texas, a small town…
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On the night he met Elaine Sunmi Kwon in Los Angeles in September 2012, Jordan Hayes Taylor was exhausted. He had spent the evening before celebrating his birthday, and when it came time to have dinner with some of his friends from high school, “I was hanging on by a thread,” Mr. Taylor, 37, said.…
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It was at the memorial mass of Tom Shea’s mother, in February 2018, that Dan Elliott realized he was falling in love. The two men had met through OkCupid in April 2017, and had been dating somewhat intermittently, as Mr. Shea lived in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., while Mr. Elliott was then a resident of Paoli,…
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Ashley Blaine Featherson, who plays Joelle Brooks on the Netflix series “Dear White People,” and Darroll Jenkins, a sports agent, were not immune to the anxiety inherent in a 2021 wedding. “In the midst of planning our wedding, many things have happened,” from Covid to hurricanes, said Ms. Featherson, 33 who is also a television…
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As two people widely recognized for their prose, Bianca Turetsky and Peter Bach perhaps unsurprisingly each found themselves drawn to the other’s way with words when they first communicated through the dating app Hinge in August 2017. Ms. Turetsky, 42, is an author whose works include the series “The Time Traveling Fashionista.” Dr. Bach, 57,…
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Raisa Marie Lopez-Rhoden and Ndubuisi Ugoeze Richard Okereke met at a Halloween party in 2008, when she was dressed as a schoolgirl and he a pirate. They became friends. In August 2009, they went on their first date, to an Italian restaurant in Manhattan. “It was the first time we both got to sit down…
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By the end of 2019, I was ready for a change of scenery. Working as a natural history photographer, I’d spent the previous two years tracking snow leopards in the Himalayas. Then, one snowy afternoon, I received a brief call from Dr. Rohit Naniwadekar, a bird biologist with the Nature Conservation Foundation. He asked me…
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“The vaccine saves lives but it will not be a silver bullet,” said Dr. Githinji Gitahi, the chief executive officer for Amref Health Africa, a nongovernmental organization. The vaccine, called Mosquirix, targets the deadliest malaria parasite and the most common in Africa — Plasmodium falciparum. While the vaccines are a “huge addition to the fight”…
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