作者:admin 2020-10-24
Credit...Brian ReaBy Gregory WaltersOct. 23, 2020Updated 10:00 a.m. ETLast summer, as I neared 25 years in Vancouver, I concluded that I had exhausted the local dating pool. I had overfished Plenty of Fish and used up all my arrows at OkCupid. A sill
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作者:admin 2020-10-22
Credit...Brian ReaOct. 20, 2020With a Touch of LoveMy father, Seung-ho, has always had an eye for little details. About two months into sheltering-in-place, I asked him to grab me chocolate almond milk at the grocery store. When he came home with cas
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作者:admin 2020-10-17
Credit...Brian ReaBy Patric GagneOct. 16, 2020Updated 11:34 a.m. ETMy husband was trying to tell me I was “the only one” for him.“Don’t lie to a liar,” I said.It wasn’t a very romantic reply, I’ll admit. But I’m not a romantic. I’m a sociopath.My hus
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作者:admin 2020-10-15
Credit...Brian ReaOct. 13, 2020My Life as a KernelThe way a never-been-kissed 23-year-old feels on a date’s couch is the same way the last unpopped popcorn kernel feels in the microwave. As an anxious and over-scheduled kernel, I always stopped the t
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作者:admin 2020-10-10
Credit...Brian ReaBy Jared MisnerOct. 9, 2020, 12:00 a.m. ETOn the day I knew Alison would die, I called my two dogs into bed with me and wrapped all three of us in a quilt that’s hand stitched with my wedding vows.This being such a custom item, it’s
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作者:admin 2020-10-08
Credit...Brian ReaOct. 6, 2020A Love Nest in ConnecticutFour years ago, a pair of sparrows built a nest in our microwave vent. My husband evicted them. They rebuilt. My husband gave up. The squawking squatters now return every May to raise a family.
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作者:admin 2020-10-03
Credit...Brian ReaBy Meher AhmadOct. 2, 2020, 12:00 a.m. ETSeeing the movie “Bend It Like Beckham” on a Girl Scouts overnight shaped my romantic preferences for years to come. As the sole Desi member of our suburban Indiana troop, I watched in a stat
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作者:admin 2020-10-01
Credit...Brian ReaSept. 29, 2020Sending LoveGetting care packages at sleep-away camp felt like getting hugs through the mail. Gum, games and Mad Libs equaled instant, albeit fleeting, popularity. Now, from upstate New York, I return the favor to my m
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作者:admin 2020-09-26
Credit...Brian ReaBy Heather von RohrSept. 25, 2020, 12:00 a.m. ETHe had been in Los Angeles for a month, but he said he hadn’t seen much. The ocean, a couple of record stores and the stretch of concrete he hiked to get to the library where I happene
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作者:admin 2020-09-24
Credit...Brian ReaSept. 22, 2020Updated 7:27 p.m. ET‘Don’t Ever Lose This Rock’Six years ago, on a humid evening at an open-air bar in Vietnam, a tipsy acquaintance gave me a rock. She stole it from a potted plant, saying, “Don’t ever lose this rock.
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