LJ Rader tries to be online as much as possible during big sporting events, but he missed the first half of last Sunday’s N.F.L. playoff game between the Buffalo Bills and the Kansas City Chiefs because of a dinner engagement. After he left the restaurant, Mr. Rader checked his phone and saw an unusual request:…
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Who says you have to live in one place? Maybe a few tiny homes would be preferable. That’s what Robert Losonsky and Edith Wassenaar discovered when they traded a typical home in the Netherlands for several smaller ones, adopting a peripatetic lifestyle — one that prioritizes activities like surfing over work — in the process.…
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Over this past Thanksgiving holiday, Timothy Craig Braun and Peter David Arnold broke the news to their 19-year-old fraternal twin daughters: After 25 years together, they were finally getting married. It was a surprise announcement since the couple, who live in Montclair, N.J., had always told their daughters that they were already married. “I was…
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When I went to the office, Fancy would stay home alone all day, so her mother sent a young girl to help her with household chores. This was a source of nuisance to me. When I returned home from work, Fancy would open the door, and I would carry her in my arms to the…
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Once Mr. Caneco responded, he displayed what she considered a weirdness of his own: After only a few messages, he asked to switch to phone calls. “I’m somebody who only talks on the phone for work,” she said. Overcoming that aversion for Mr. Caneco seemed worth it, though. His devotion to Beanhead, whose mystery illness…
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After a brief introduction at La Terrasse, a bar on the University of Pennsylvania’s campus that has since closed, on Sept. 29, 1983, Pamela Ann Dillon spent the next few hours hanging on to Stephen Michael Dillon’s every word. “I didn’t want the conversation to stop,” said Ms. Dillon, who had just started her master’s…
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At first, the striking similarities in the Rev. Peter Manning and Garth Wingfield’s life paths made for fun first-date fodder. And then the parallels became too pronounced to chalk up to coincidence. When Mr. Manning first matched with Mr. Wingfield on the dating app Hinge in March 2022, he discovered that they had long run…
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After a portion of an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 jetliner’s fuselage blew out in midair minutes after taking off from Portland, Ore., on Jan. 5, the Federal Aviation Administration grounded about 170 Max 9 planes, causing airlines that rely heavily on the aircraft to cancel thousands of flights and inconveniencing many passengers. On…
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Back when Nikki Haley, the last woman standing in the race for the Republican nomination, began dating her now-husband, she took a look at him and asked him what his name was. Puzzled, he told her it was Bill, which she already knew. “You just don’t look like a Bill. What’s your whole name?” she…
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