Finding Your Family – The New York Times

Who comes to New York City? The ambitious. The competitive. The desperate — to be famous, to be rich, to be beloved. But I’ve long thought that adopted New Yorkers are united by another quality, as well: Our desire to find a new family. Sometimes that family is a literal, traditional family. Just as often,…

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How to Apologize Like You Mean It

Most of us can remember receiving an unsatisfying apology. A friend of mine recently got a text message after a Bumble date stood her up: “Sry,” it read. (“He didn’t even spell out the whole word,” she told me.) When my kid was in preschool, an email arrived in my inbox. “Sorry your daughter was…

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How New York Spent Its Valentine’s Day

Love it or hate it, Valentine’s Day is hard to escape. It’s the one day of the year when all of Instagram is deluged with proud displays of affection and shops are filled with people buying last-minute gifts. And there was no shortage of pink and red roses, hearts and chocolates in Manhattan, where residents…

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