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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SubwayCreatures, a popular Instagram account, offers a voyeuristic look at New York’s bizarre and wacky underground.When Hurricane Ida struck New York last month, an incredible, terrifying scene occurred in the subway station at 28th and Seventh Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. Water began gushing from under the platform in ...
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‘Succession’ returns and the sky is falling.Welcome. I’ll admit I’m attracted to the new “dreamy-looking cans, in sherbet and pastel hues” of expensive wellness drinks proliferating in my local market’s beverage aisle. I bet they look good in a sun-bleached tableau on Instagram, but do they “transcend stress, ...
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Not the sock itself, but a note attached to the sock. (Actually, the guy who wrote the note.)Nearly five years ago, I found a stray sock in my building’s lobby with a note affixed to it that read: “This guy got separated from his family and I found ...
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Eight years ago, Chris Baker and John Federspiel exchanged smiles from across a crowded nightclub floor. And then they moved closer.Chris Baker was with a group of friends at a nightclub in Hollywood, Calif., over the Thanksgiving weekend of 2013, when he spotted John Federspiel smiling at him ...
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Jurema Gobena and Enyi Okebugwu started out as casual friends after meeting at Yale. But all that changed during the summer of 2016.A postgraduate summer fling with Jurema Gobena, in New Haven, Conn., in 2016, just wasn’t enough for Enyi Okebugwu.“The final conversation we had before leaving was, ...
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At the museum where Jamie Cooke and Dr. Joshua Zeiger were married, a neon sculpture on the outside wall read in all caps: “Everything is going to be alright.”Jamie Antoinette Cooke and Dr. Joshua Ryan Zeiger figured they had been to at least 20 of the same social ...
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Eva Maria Theresa Janerus was just following the matchmaker’s orders when she met Gautam Mukunda in the summer of 2019. No other date could measure up.Eva Maria Theresa Janerus, recently divorced, sought the help of a matchmaker in June 2019 to prepare her for the rigors of a ...
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ESSEX, Mass. — When he was 22 and flush from success as a member of the boy band New Kids on the Block, Jonathan Knight bought a Georgian house, built circa 1900, on the North Shore here, with a slate roof, Palladian windows, terraces and 12,000 square feet ...
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Less than a decade after fleeing a repressive ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, Haart heads a global talent empire. Her next challenge? Letting viewers peek behind the curtain.“I just don’t believe that God would put me into hell because my knees show,” Julia Haart, 50, said.This was on a blazing ...
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Yes, they’re back — and they don’t all look alike. Take these five, for instance.Don’t assume you know what a beanbag chair looks — or feels — like, if the last time you sat on one was in a college dorm or a children’s playroom.Furniture designers and manufacturers ...
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The social network is aiming to be a destination for creators and their viral memes. But TikTok and YouTube got there first.SAN FRANCISCO — Over the past 18 months, Chris Cox, Facebook’s top product executive, watched with surprise as Instagram came alive in ways he hadn’t seen before.As ...
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The patron saint of designing for the female gaze is back.Listen? Do you hear that? It is the intake of breath after thousands of women’s fashion prayers are finally answered. Phoebe Philo, the patron saint of dressing for the female gaze, the designer whose work convinced Joan Didion ...
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