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What They Paid for Their Weddings
Former brides reveal where they splurged and where they scrimped for their nuptials — and what (if anything) they would have done differently.
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I Put On Lipstick for This?
Lunch with an older friend prompts a writer to try some seemingly outdated stratagems for attracting a mate.
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How a Sexual Assault in a School Bathroom Became a Political Weapon
For months a sort of aerosolized fury had hung over the Loudoun County school district. There were fights over Covid closures and mask mandates, over racial-equity programs, over library books. Now, in the weeks before the school board’s meeting on ...
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Poem: Powerless Self-Judgement
Will Alexander’s visionary work achieves its effect through sound, not image.
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Judge John Hodgman on Getting a Colonoscopy
What should you do with a husband who “doesn’t like doctors”?
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Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Felt Like a Particle of Light’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
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The Woman Behind the ‘Hot Girl Summer’ Necklace
Taylor Sade is the founder of Vertigo, which sells chokers, pendants and belts made of beads that look as if they were plucked from the beach.
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Don’t Worry, He’s All Right, According to at Least One Woman
Facebook groups like Vouched Dating and Are We Dating the Same Guy? help strangers vet potential partners.
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What Should I Wear to Officiate a Wedding?
A reader is looking for an outfit that won’t draw attention away from the bride and groom.
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My Friend Is Trapped in a Nursing Home. What Can I Do?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on helping people who are institutionalized against their will.