Understandably by Bill Murphy Jr.

Understandably by Bill Murphy Jr.

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Love and marriage

36 questions, free ceremonies and rooftop dances ... and 'F-bombs.' Also, 7 other things worth your time.

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Apr 28, 2020
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Life goes on. So does love, and sometimes marriage.

Emily Herzberg and Samuel Dowd, for example.

She’s a chief fellow in neonatal-perinatal medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital; he’s a product manager for a company that brings international high school students to study in the U.S.

After meeting on Bumble, they spent their second and third dates answering the “36 questions that lead to love” quiz that ran a few years ago in the New York Times.

Things worked out, and they’d planned to get married at the Dennis Inn on Cape Cod. Because of Covid-19, however, they tied the knot last weekend in a small ceremony in Dowd’s parent’s backyard.

Meet Maggie Moore and Brandon Baez. They dated in high school.

(Can you tell I spent some time on the NYT weddings site?)

She’s a certified nursing assistant and he’s on active duty in the Navy. They’re very young—18 and 21, respectively—as the Times pointed out at least four times in a 500-word announcement.

They got married earlier this month at Glenclif…

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