Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.Ready to Hug MeOrphaned at 13, I thought about how I would never again play basketball with my father or talk about crushes on girls with my mother. But even then, living with my grandparents, I ...
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The longtime host permanently parted ways with the reality franchise after stepping back in February.Chris Harrison, the longtime host of “The Bachelor,” “The Bachelorette” and “Bachelor in Paradise,” has parted ways with the reality TV franchise after nearly 20 years as its most constant presence.His departure, which was ...
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Many people who have found fame on TikTok are struggling with mental health issues.Lately, it’s been hard for Jack Innanen, a 22-year-old TikTok star from Toronto, to create content. “I feel like I’m tapping a keg that’s been empty for a year,” he said.Spending hours shooting, editing, storyboarding, ...
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The rations often derided as ‘Meals, Rarely Edible’ have gotten (somewhat) better and become objects of fascination for millions of civilians.Kathleen Ehl had always thought of her business as a niche affair — an online store called North Georgia Outdoors Supply that she and her husband run out ...
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Joy Morrow-Nulton and John Shults Jr., both widowed twice after 60-plus years of marriage, celebrated their 95th birthdays and wedding.Joy Morrow-Nulton keeps a diary, but she doesn’t need it to remember the date of her first lunch with John Shults Jr. in upstate New York. “It was May ...
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“I feel like a gazelle that’s just been born,” said one woman strapping back on the stilettos.As she dressed for her 26th birthday recently, Cleo Pac Monrose focused on making a statement. Ms. Monrose, a podcast marketer for Spotify, flicked the dust off her party clothes and the ...
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Antes los procedimientos quirúrgicos solían hacerse en secreto pero, en el mundo pos-Kardashian, la transparencia solo es una parte del proceso.Cuando Herluf Lund, un cirujano plástico certificado en Chesterfield, Misuri, comenzó a realizar intervenciones estéticas hace 30 años, la gran mayoría de sus pacientes querían que sus cirugías ...
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EDEN, N.C. — Sounds change with the seasons, of course, but this spring, among the usual mix of bird song and lawn mowers, there are notable silences in this town of 15,000 people.First, the whistle that used to signal the start of three daily shifts at the Karastan ...
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EDEN, N.C. — Sounds change with the seasons, of course, but this spring, among the usual mix of bird song and lawn mowers, there are notable silences in this town of 15,000 people.First, the whistle that used to signal the start of three daily shifts at the Karastan ...
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For years, Symone — the drag queen persona created by Reggie Gavin — has been collecting folders of memorable looks, with hundreds of references to Black women. There are photographs from Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar of Lil’ Kim, Whitney Houston, Grace Jones, Diana Ross, Tina Turner and Rihanna.She ...
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For years, Symone — the drag queen persona created by Reggie Gavin — has been collecting folders of memorable looks, with hundreds of references to Black women. There are photographs from Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar of Lil’ Kim, Whitney Houston, Grace Jones, Diana Ross, Tina Turner and Rihanna.She ...
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Swimming pools and summer TV.Welcome. Will this summer be a wild, maskless frolic, a Roaring ’20s montage of window sashes flung open, giddy reunions, spontaneous making out with strangers? In her essay for this week’s Times Magazine, the Canadian writer Mireille Silcoff examines how advertising has fueled the ...
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Kimberlee Stevenson was a fan of John Murray’s books. After they connected on social media, he became her biggest admirer.In March 2016, during a visit to the Major Hillard Library in Chesapeake, Va., Kimberlee Stevenson picked up a copy of “Until I Saw Your Smile” by J.J. Murray, ...
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Ben Wald was one of the first to join the Jewish Museum’s Young Patron Program after Jacqueline Spar followed up with him, twice.Benjamin Louis Wald did his best in January 2015 to get some art into his life, then Jacqueline Rebecca Spar stepped in.“A mentor suggested I keep ...
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