Ashley Chiang and Dr. Roy Xiao met on the first day of freshmen orientation at Princeton, but their relationship didn’t take off until sophomore year.Ashley Chiang planned to go to medical school after college, and was even accepted into an early-admissions program during her sophomore year at Princeton.But ...
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Gillian Stoss and Zach Lent dated for 16 years — more than half of their lives — before taking their relationship to the next level.Gillian Stoss first spotted Zach Lent 16 years ago at a basketball championship. The team from her elementary school, St. Brendan Parish School in ...
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Gabi Conti’s romantic losing streak was broken when she met Daren Johnson — and gave him a much-needed attitude adjustment.If Gabi Conti learned anything from the exercise in extreme dating she undertook as a writer for Cosmopolitan magazine in 2019, it was to cut through the pleasantries. So ...
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He wanted to get really serious really fast, which felt good until it didn’t.When my Hinge match said on our first date that he wanted a serious relationship, a house with a fence, and children soon, I thought, “Maybe I should introduce him to Zerrin.” She, my dear ...
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He wanted to get really serious really fast, which felt good until it didn’t.When my Hinge match said on our first date that he wanted a serious relationship, a house with a fence, and children soon, I thought, “Maybe I should introduce him to Zerrin.” She, my dear ...
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In 1952, a 28-year-old secretary attended a traditional handicrafts exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Inspired especially by the hand-printed fabrics she encountered there, the young woman returned home and told her husband that she had never seen anything like them in stores, and wanted ...
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Millions of people are checking TikTok posts about a pug as a horoscope of sorts to see what kind of day they will have based on whether the dog rises or stays in bed.On Monday, Noodle, a 13-year-old pug, sleepily rose from his bed.That meant one thing: It ...
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Sometimes a dress is just a dress. Sometimes it’s a strategy.Senator Kyrsten Sinema may have been in Europe recently on a fund-raising trip and out of reach of the activists who have dogged her footsteps, frustrated with her obstruction of President Biden’s social spending bill. But despite the ...
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Knobkerry was a shop and gallery where Ornette Coleman hung out and Janis Joplin shopped. It is the subject of a new book and related exhibition.It was back in 2017 that Svetlana Kitto, a Columbia University-trained oral historian who writes frequently about art, was researching a catalog for ...
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A new streaming platform wants to be a destination for Black audiences around the world.When Ousman Sahko Sow and Akin Adebowale founded Blacktag in 2019, they sought to answer two questions: What would a streaming platform for a digitally savvy Black audience look like? And how could it ...
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Take a trip.Welcome. If each day of the workweek corresponds to a gear on a five-speed car, then Monday might be “starting” and Thursday might be “cruising.” Wednesday, meanwhile, would be an in-between gear, a time when you’re driving around town running errands. When weeks drag, I think ...
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No longer just for the Kennedys and Astors: The great-granddaughter of a legendary decorator wants to make interior design more accessible.Sister Parish, the grande dame of American interior decorating, was a young Depression-era mother when she embarked on her career. She had no formal training in design, and ...
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Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.Our Fragile BondsHaving nearly lost my marriage, I appreciate its comforts now: the quotidian rituals, the seamless care of our children, our shared warmth under the covers. But we both have unexplored pain. After all, with ...
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Following a social media frenzy, resale sites have seen a spike in searches for the fashion designer’s vintage corsets, jewelry and other items.First came the TikTok lights, then the TikTok yoga pants and finally, this summer, the TikTok necklace: a three-strand Vivienne Westwood pearl choker first shown in ...
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