Shane Hutsen and Michael Beard, who met two years ago, were thrown a curveball on their way to the altar.During the first week of April, just five weeks before Michael Bryan Beard and Michael Shane Hutsen were to be married, Mr. Beard suffered a spinal cerebrospinal fluid leak ...
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Gia Rosenblum and Stuart Miller met as teenagers and became friends. Nearly 40 years later, they fell in love.Gianine Denise Rosenblum doesn’t see herself as a poet. As a clinical psychologist, she is a “science writer,” she said. But when she and Stuart Miller got together in 2022, ...
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Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.Brian ReaAn Earnest Endearment“So now that we’re dating, what should I call you?” she asked. “Sugar pie, honeybunch, darlin’?” she said, teasingly, putting on a Southern accent. I giggled. “My favorite has always been ‘love.’” “Love,” ...
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Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | YouTube |iHeartRadio‘I just thought that we had time. I just thought we had forever to work it out.’Illustration by Brian ReaElizabeth and Jeff were best friends. They did everything together, from early-morning runs to late-night ...
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Blacksmithing is having a moment, with viral videos and easy-on-the-eyes farriers, who often like working with their shirts off.At the London premiere of the latest Marvel movie, “Thunderbolts,” last month, the usual crowd was invited: models, celebrities and Hollywood types. Slipping between them, his tattoos peeping out of ...
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Chick-fil-A is right coded. “Rent” and “Hamilton” are left coded. Comedy and wrestling are right coded. Independent movie theaters and capoeira are left coded. “Yellowstone” is right coded and “White Lotus” is left. There’s a case for the HBO show “Girls” being right coded. “Superbad” is a little ...
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Chick-fil-A is right coded. “Rent” and “Hamilton” are left coded. Comedy and wrestling are right coded. Independent movie theaters and capoeira are left coded. “Yellowstone” is right coded and “White Lotus” is left. There’s a case for the HBO show “Girls” being right coded. “Superbad” is a little ...
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Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.Brian ReaA Fateful Crosswalk“Why don’t you have a girlfriend?” my younger brother asks. “Everyone thinks you’re gay.” Panic consumes 14-year-old me. I pray and hear: “Find a girlfriend.” I date the most popular girl in high ...
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In a dressing room behind the stage in the Metropolitan Opera House, Wynton Marsalis, the trumpeter and educator, intently watched a live feed of the big band representing the Osceola County School for the Arts, from Kissimmee, Fla. They were playing Dizzy Gillespie’s “Things to Come,” a piece ...
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What happens when motherhood doesn’t feel the way you expect.I counted 26. No, 27. Wait, did that one fly away?Listen to this article, read by Janina EdwardsSeveral years ago, on a cold winter day, I sat on the stone steps of the American Museum of Natural History counting ...
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Susan Bin started a meme account last year after watching the papal film “Conclave.” Then the real thing happened.How did you learn a new pope had been elected?Were you glued to a livestream? Maybe you got a push alert. Or, if you are a particularly online type of ...
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Perched on the roof of the Sistine Chapel, three birds were the among the first to glimpse the white smoke signaling a new pope.Sea gulls were seen on the roof of the Sistine Chapel throughout the conclave that ended when Robert Francis Prevost, an American, was named pope, ...
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The popularity of synthetic stones has sent the market for natural diamonds crashing. With consumers confused about how to tell the difference, how can a market leader like De Beers regain its sparkle?Do you care where a diamond comes from?Historically, consumers didn’t have a choice. Natural diamonds were ...
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Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.Brian ReaBefore ‘Polyamory’ Was in VogueVeronica’s prom date wanted to marry her, but I was her preference. Our honeymoon was nice but not exciting. After joining the Navy, I left on a six-month cruise of the ...
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