Meg He felt an immediate connection with Margot Ciccarelli during a private jiu-jitsu lesson more than three years ago.Before it was ever put into words, the connection, between Meg He and Margot Ciccarelli was apparent from their movements.Ms. He and Ms. Ciccarelli both practice Brazilian jiu-jitsu. In 2019, ...
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For decades we connected nearly every day. One terrible moment changed all that.The nurse had to unwrap the bandages that were holding the skin grafts in place in order for Miriam to use the bathroom. I had just arrived at the hospital — the first nonfamily visitor since ...
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Do you have a surprising pet name for your loved ones? When you were young, were you called something bizarre? Tell us about it.Pet names are part of a shared, private language among lovers, family and friends. They can create intimate bonds and often have funny origin stories ...
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On a Saturday night in December, just after sunset, Megan Horton sat at the bar of Nubeluz, a 50th-floor lounge on top of New York City’s newest Ritz Carlton hotel, savoring a drink.She was in town from San Francisco, where she works for Apple in client services, and ...
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Yayoi Kusama. Gucci. Barbie. The coronation. What will matter to your wardrobe this year?How can anyone feel less than optimistic about a year that starts with a veritable explosion of polka dots?Ten years after its initial collaboration with the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, Louis Vuitton has once again ...
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More and more products promise “clean beauty,” along with plumper lips and fewer wrinkles. But what does that actually mean?New Year, new you. January often starts with resolutions about self-improvement of mind and body. For many, that can mean an embrace of clean beauty, in its myriad forms.Swiss ...
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More and more products promise “clean beauty,” along with plumper lips and fewer wrinkles. But what does that actually mean?New Year, new you. January often starts with resolutions about self-improvement of mind and body. For many, that can mean an embrace of clean beauty, in its myriad forms.Swiss ...
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Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.A Perfect FitI’m 5-foot-4. The tallest man I’ve dated seriously was 5-foot-8; the man I once thought of as my soul mate was 5-foot-6. I like being eye level with my partner. I don’t like being ...
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Seven writers describe how they started the new year with celebrations big and small.A few days before the earth completed its latest orbit of the sun, we asked a group of essayists, novelists and journalists to chronicle how they would bring 2022 to a close and kick off ...
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With Prince Harry’s new book, “Spare,” set to be released next week, Britain is gearing up for the release of revealing new interviews with the estranged royal.LONDON — With soaring fuel prices, a sagging economy, disruptive strikes, and lengthy waits in hospital emergency rooms, Britons could use a ...
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DAKAR, Senegal — The clash of cranes and bulldozers and the abundance of concrete and pipes as one walks through the streets signal where Dakar is headed and what it lacks. The atmosphere is not quite chaos. But it is quietly chaotic.As Dakar, the capital of Senegal, has ...
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On the ninth day of filming Netflix’s “Mind Your Manners,” the show’s host, the Shanghai etiquette teacher Sara Jane Ho, dumped her on-again-off-again boyfriend of four years in a text message. Ms. Ho, a preternaturally poised 37-year-old who grew up on four continents and can eat a sunny-side-up ...
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On the ninth day of filming Netflix’s “Mind Your Manners,” the show’s host, the Shanghai etiquette teacher Sara Jane Ho, dumped her on-again-off-again boyfriend of four years in a text message. Ms. Ho, a preternaturally poised 37-year-old who grew up on four continents and can eat a sunny-side-up ...
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In 1938, researchers at Harvard set out to learn what makes a person thrive.They recruited 724 participants, a combination of students at Harvard College and low-income teenage boys in Boston. All were willing to let the researchers track their lives, from childhood troubles to first loves to final ...
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