Henry Connelly, the communications director for the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, can relate to the cinematic tale of a farmer discovering his “Field of Dreams” in an Iowa cornfield. The girl of his dreams, Samantha Warren, was born and raised in the thick of an Illinois cornfield. Their love story, though, was set in Washington.…
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When Jordan Culbreath, an accomplished running back for the Princeton Tigers, entered his senior year at Princeton University in 2009, he began to realize that something was wrong in his body. He had headaches. He felt numbness in his limbs. He “couldn’t even walk up a set of stairs without getting tired,” he said. He…
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Even so, she misses the serendipity of New York. She recalled how she happened upon a yarn store near her apartment full of chatty knitters when she was just out walking one Sunday. “To find those little communities in Manhattan was amazing,” she said. “The walkability lends itself to people dropping in and hanging out.”…
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Olympians are the world’s most impressive athletes. Watching them show off their superhuman strength, endurance and form, it’s easy to forget that many of them are not just mortals but teens and 20-somethings, effectively living in dorms, their emotions and hormones swiveling and swerving as they vie for the ultimate honors in sports. When they’re…
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Jane Jeong and Byron Hsu have always managed to individually achieve what they have set their minds to. But they needed the other to learn what it truly means to love. Before meeting in the spring of 2019, Ms. Jeong, 32, and Mr. Hsu, 37, had approached romance in what Ms. Jeong described as “a…
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Florence Christina Johnson met Dr. Nima Yazdanpanah in September 2019 when she got a ride with him arranged by the organizer of a weekend spiritual retreat in New York’s Catskills region. “I see this good-looking guy with big basketball shorts and curly, crazy out-there hair,” said Ms. Johnson, who took an Uber to Williamsburg, Brooklyn,…
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“She was my best friend but I didn’t think about it as being ‘in love,’” Mr. Mahmud said. Though, he said, he “started developing feelings.” “Kirin, since the start of college, was always like, ‘I’m going to marry you one day,” he said. “She was always very affectionate, very ostentatious, and I thought, maybe she’s…
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Crested Butte Mountain in Colorado is majestic. That would be reason enough to get married in its presence. But for Abigail Berger and David Frum, getting married there was a sacred celebration. Mr. Frum’s mother, Bonnie Jean Frum, died in 2016. “Her imprint on Dave and his family is clear,” Ms. Berger said. “She raised…
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“Her legs are a lot shorter than mine and I kept turning around to make sure she was there, but I was walking a lot faster than she was,” said Mr. Poorman, now 33. “At one point, I looked back, and she just wasn’t there. I was pretty shook.” Her version of the story tells…
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Kendall Anne Michaelis and Michael Joseph Harrell started out as high school sweethearts. They met and began dating in 2005 when he was a junior and she was a sophomore at Wheeler High School in Marietta, Ga. And like many high school sweethearts, Ms. Michaelis, 31, and Mr. Harrell, 32, were off again on again…
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