An Unexpected Move From Emergency Roommates to Soul Mates
When Jiordan Castle’s apartment plans fell through, she put out an ad on Craigslist for a roommate. Jerrod Morgan responded.
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Jiordan Castle was looking for a roommate. Instead, she found love.
“We met on Craigslist. We were emergency roommates,” Ms. Castle said. In the summer of 2013, Ms. Castle posted a “seeking roommate” ad on Craigslist San Francisco, because the apartment plans she was counting on had fallen through. Jerrod Morgan, 33, responded to her ad.
“He had just moved to the city and was equally desperate for a place to live,” said Ms. Castle, 30. “We met for pizza and decided to look for an apartment together.” They found one, also on Craigslist, and moved in a week later.
A Kiss Before the Barristersâ Ball and Now Theyâve Made it Legal
While Alexandra White was outgoing and sociable at law school, Joel Kuzniecky came off as shy and mysterious. They were married on Valentineâs Day.
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Feb. 26, 2021
Alexandra Newman White and Joel Benzion Kuzniecky met in September 2014 on their first day at Fordham Law school in New York. They were randomly assigned seats next to each other in a property law class. They were both in Section 5.
A couple of weeks later, when she spotted him on a crowded Union Square subway platform around 7:30 a.m., she walked over.
A Desire for Consistency (and Sanitizing) Led to Love
Sonya Keshwani and Sahil Navodia’s relationship began on a seesaw. They soon started supporting each other in other ways.
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Published Feb. 19, 2021Updated Feb. 22, 2021
When you’re weary, the idea of traveling to Midtown Manhattan to ride a giant seesaw probably isn’t at the top your wish list.
It certainly wasn’t for Sonya Keshwani and Sahil Suleman Navodia one day in January of 2020, when a group of friends from their jamatkhana, a house of prayer, invited each of them to an installation of glowing seesaws that had been set up in the garment district. Mr. Navodia, then 27, had just returned from a trip to India; he was still jet-lagged. Ms. Keshwani, who had just turned 31, had recently completed treatment for breast cancer. She had been out and about all day, and she was tired. But she was also in a period of her life when she was determined to put herself out there; her fight against cancer ha
Get ready for a lot more weddings not that they ever really went away.
Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, weddings in the United States brought together people who might not otherwise have gathered in fraught circumstances. Sometimes the outcomes were tragic.
In August, a 55-person wedding in rural Maine resulted in a chain of infections that spread more than 200 miles, landing seven people in the hospital, killing four of them and three others.
A 91-person October wedding on Long Island led to 30 people testing positive.
In central Washington State, a 300-person wedding in November resulted in
61 confirmed cases of infection; some of the attendees worked in a long-term-care facility, where 15 people died.