Finding Love Across the Hall

Chris Wiggins moved to Manhattan with two friends in 2013 after they graduated from the University of Central Florida in Orlando. They split a one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan’s South Street Seaport neighborhood. At the same time, Annie Jackson moved into the same building with two of her friends. Soon after they settled in, Taylor Klessens,…

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Feeling a Vibe From the Get-Go

A little shark-bait subterfuge was necessary, Chris James judged, to get Anthony Gavranic into exactly the right spot for a sunrise proposal at Waimanalo Bay on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. It was April, and the two were having a post-vaccination vacation at a place they’d visited and loved just before the coronavirus pandemic arrived…

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Goodbye, My Fantasy Man

“Kismet,” I wrote. “Is that so much to ask?” Meghan had convinced me to start online dating by promising she would do it with me. To cover our bases, we registered on two sites: OkCupid (which was free) and eHarmony (which was definitely not). Soon Meghan began going on dates, returning to our San Francisco…

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