Author: Jenny Block

The New York Times – Fashion & Style:

Garrison Rufa and Theodore Lavoie grew up in New England and were both avid snowboarders, but they didn’t meet until they matched on Tinder.

The New York Times – Fashion & Style:

Caleb Dicke didn’t register Cole Burden’s performance in a musical. Several years later, they got engaged before an opera — and planned a wedding in three weeks.

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Julie Estrada Ewart, a single mother for 11 years, was not sure she would ever find true love. Enter Robert Bishop, a hockey coach who said he had been waiting his whole life for her.

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Jamie Kalman needed a fire performer for an event she was producing and was about to hire Aubrey DePew, but then the pandemic happened.

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Michaela Cook, an Australian pop-country singer known as Micks, and Jake Moyle found their way back to each other after losing touch. Soon, they were inseparable.

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When Jirair Ratevosian, a Congressional candidate, and Micheal Ighodaro, an activist and filmmaker, first met, both were so busy with work that sometimes a date meant meeting in an airport lounge.

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When Felix Allen III returned to his hometown, Waco, Texas, he was hoping to soon move again to a big city for his career. But after meeting Brandon Marshall, he decided to stay.

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Stephen Meeneghan, a naturopathic doctor, was hesitant when he received a message on a dating app from Ryan Cassata, a transgender advocate and musician. Yet they clicked right away.

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Jason Mercado and Kristen Bateman, who met 10 years ago, didn’t begin dating until after three months of emailing. “I wanted to become friends first,” Ms. Bateman, a self-described introvert, said.