Sean Vanaman was living in San Francisco and planning a work trip to New York when he decided to change his location on Tinder with the hope that he’d have a great date on the other coast. “I was very distinctly not looking for my life partner,” he said. “I had this very romantic idea:…
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Karolle Malalatiana Rabarison and David James Rose were married Aug. 16 in the hemlock grove at Woodend Nature Sanctuary in Chevy Chase, Md. Rabbi Hannah Spiro officiated before immediate family including Mr. Rose’s grandparents who live nearby, and a close friend. Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the sex therapist, who is a close friend of the groom’s…
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Shortly before Ann Klein left her home in Oakland, Calif., to meet Krist Roginski for a first date at an Italian restaurant in Menlo Park, Calif., she began considering her mode of transportation. “I decided to drive, mostly because I was wearing a dress,” said Ms. Klein, 56, the chief product officer at Tact.ai, a…
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Vermont has always been a significant, go-to getaway for Lucia D’Agostino Foulkes and Nicholas Spencer Dorf, particularly a tiny stone chapel in the woods at the Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, Vt. On Aug. 1 they were married outside the chapel, where Mr. Dorf had also proposed in February 2019 while they were snowshoeing through…
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A year ago, a wedding for fewer than 300 seemed impossible to Shravani Durbhakula. “When you’re an Indian person, you don’t get to have an intimate wedding,” she said. Because, she said, tradition often dictates a multiday celebration with extended family, “it just doesn’t happen.” Yet in a pandemic, sometimes it has to. Dr. Durbhakula,…
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Isaac Webb could not have imagined, back in high school in Maine, that his desire to avoid physics and calculus would eventually lead him to a career, love and marriage. But, it could be argued, that is exactly how it happened. Mr. Webb still wanted to be attractive to competitive colleges, so after reading Dostoevsky’s…
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This briefing has ended. Read live coronavirus updates here. Here’s what you need to know: ImageMedical workers distributing tests at a site in Kansas City, Kan.Credit…Christopher Smith for The New York Times The White House announces a major virus test-kit deal, just days after the C.D.C. moved to discourage testing. The White House announced on…
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When the Metropolitan Museum of Art closed in March, as the coronavirus ravaged New York, the cluster of pushcarts out front — one of the most coveted food-vending locations in the city — was left with no business. “No museum, no customers,” said Dan Rossi, 70, a vendor who over 13 years has become known…
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One of the strategies for keeping international travel afloat during the pandemic was the creation of “travel bubbles”: alliances between neighboring nations with low infection rates that would allow travelers from those countries to freely visit. But as the summer draws to a close and infections continue to pop up, it appears that, in many…
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Some of us are clearly more suited than others to our current culture of social distancing and virtual get-togethers. My husband and I fall into opposite camps: Seth is a heartfelt, non-ironic hugger from Berkeley, Calif. I am not. For me, a hybrid of a British dad and Brooklyn-born mom, used to quick and choppy…
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