When Nick Cugini received a Facebook friend request from Stacey Chen, he was intrigued, and a little amused. The two, who were then teenagers, had met for the first time at the Tournament of Champions, a top-tier debate competition for high school students at Northwestern University. Mr. Cugini, now 30, was a relative newcomer to…
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Trapped in luxury, Halston slid down the slippery slope from J.C. Penney to luggage, sunglasses, bedsheets, whatever until, finally, it was taken from him entirely, thanks to a combination of corporate takeovers, bad behavior and one major misunderstanding: his belief that the name and the designer could not be parted. He was, of course, wrong…
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Name: Richie Shazam Age: 30 Hometown: Queens, N.Y. Now Lives: In a three-bedroom apartment in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. Claim to Fame: Richie Shazam is a model, photographer, nightlife habitué and the co-host of “Shine True,” a docuseries on transgender and nonbinary youth. “I don’t like being identified as just one thing,” she said,…
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Michelle Lorenzutti and David Alperin began dating in 2019, but in some ways their love story started much earlier, when their great-grandparents arrived in Brooklyn in the first half of the 20th Century. That history turned out to be key to the connection the couple developed decades later. Ms. Lorenzutti’s forebears fled persecution in Russia…
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If the April 16 ruse Michael T. Matthews concocted to convince his girlfriend, Amy Marshall, that she would have to deliver a baby on a median at 108th and Broadway demonstrated anything, it was that he knows her well. Ms. Marshall, the senior director of nursing at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan, is a former…
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Mary Alexandra Kougeas Crowley perked up her ears when Justin Warren Douds sang “I’m just a bachelor. I’m looking for a partner” the winter of 2014 at a karaoke league competition at a Washington bar. Neither, though, was looking for a partner at the time. “I sang Magic Mike’s ‘Pony,’ but I didn’t do the…
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Bria Schirripa can easily rattle off many of Michael Buccarelli’s admirable qualities. “He’s extremely loyal, very family-oriented and has a really fun side to him,” said Ms. Schirripa, 29, who met Mr. Buccarelli, 32, in March 2016, when they began working in side-by-side cubicles at First Data Corporation, a financial services firm in Jersey City,…
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When asked what they believed brought them together in December 2017, Dr. Christine Gruessner and Przemyslaw Grabowski each offered an explanation that could be summed up in a single word: magnetism. “We were instantly magnetized toward each other,” said Dr. Gruessner, 35, an internal medicine resident at the University of Minnesota. “He was on a…
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And as Ron was generous with Brent, so, too, was their family generous with us. When Ron and Mary had a barbecue, my parents were invited. When Ron and Brent watched “Revenge of the Ninja,” I joined them, too. When Brent’s family had dinner, I was welcomed to stay — gushing to my mother after…
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While it has been said that the eyes are a window to the soul, a new study shows they could be a means for understanding diseases of the brain. According to new research by scientists at the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, retinal scans can detect key changes in blood vessels that may provide an…
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