I ve been introduced to some amazing women – and I plan to date them all
Yes, I m still searching for Mr Right, but the internet has given me a circle of supportive female friends that I couldn t live without
26 June 2021 • 4:45pm
I m focusing on the women who have held me together for so long, I reckon it’s them I should be “dating”
Credit: Billie Scheepers
I’ve started dating women. Sophie from the Cotswolds, Hannah from Kensal Rise, Rebecca from Battersea; all strangers met online. For hours into the night, we share deeply personal messages until my eyes blur.
In the morning I wake up to a never-ending stream of comforting missives from women who understand me. I read their messages over and over again, each sentence as soothing as a plaster gently placed over a wound that never seems to heal. Then I cross a boundary I’d never usually entertain – I give them my phone number.
After mass shooting, they found fortitude and friendship
By MARYLYNNE PITZ, Pittsburgh Post-GazetteJune 26, 2021 GMT
PITTSBURGH (AP)
Dan Leger and Tim Matson started their lives over in a hospital, slowly rebuilding their physical strength and finding the fortitude to learn how to walk again after both were seriously wounded during the Tree of Life synagogue shooting in 2018 that left 11 people dead.
As they healed, they formed a friendship.
Mr. Leger, 73, is a third-generation nurse and hospital chaplain who was at the Squirrel Hill synagogue to worship on that Oct. 27. As he lay in intensive care after being shot in the torso, his wife, Ellen, told him Officer Matson, the Pittsburgh SWAT officer who saved his life, was recuperating on the same floor, just down the hall.