I’m glad to know mother and grandparents beat the odds and were reunited, and very thankful to you for sharing. What a lovely way to pay tribute to her memory.

Thank you so much for sharing this! It’s extraordinary! Your mother comes across quite bright and thoughtful, and the “barfing tragedy” made me LOL, poor thing. I’d be so interested to hear more of your mother’s story if you know it and are willing. Do you know if she went with the man mentioned in the letter? If so,…

Ha! My high school drama teacher had a story that someone once came to the door of her classroom and called out to get her attention while she was in the middle of a lesson. Annoyed about being interrupted, she whipped around and asked, a la Travis Bickle, “You talkin’ to me?” and to her shock and embarrassment found…

Oh, I have some good celebrity kissing stories but, like I said, the best ones are doxxing. And they don’t quite fall under the umbrella of “random encounter.”

He was really nice when he came into my restaurant. So nice I assumed he must have a history in service work.

I just looked up his net worth and it’s a surprising $75M! But I would’ve had to put a paper bag over his face and his personality, so I’m comfortable with my decision. I was never destined to be Mrs. Top.

I bumped into Dodai last year and introduced myself as Doit2Julia and told her we all miss her and she was taken totally by surprise but still very nice.

I can’t tell any of my best stories because they’re doxxing. Here’s one of the worst.

Many years ago near Union Square, I saw a very familiar looking woman who I was certain was a girl I’d met in one of my college lecture classes. It’d been almost a year since we’d last seen each other, so I darted right up, arms out ready to hug her and exclaimed, “Hey!” In that split second, she kinda scrunched up…

This is a 24-hour city. It’s always commute hours. It wasn’t too long ago that I would’ve been coming off my shift at 10 pm, and the trains are more occupied than you’d think at that hour, even on weeknights.

Engagements are just a period of time between deciding that you’re getting married and then actually getting married. Old or no, you still want some time to plan the wedding.

He seems like a good egg, and I wonder what he could bring to the show if he were more in the mix and was able to accompany Lisa to all the HW dinner parties and whatnot. But then, it probably works best for his appeal that he’s only there to be her level-headed sounding board and occasionally serve the women food…

*Sigh* No, he did not express a wish to be Camilla’s tampon. Read the transcript. It was a silly, absurdist in-joke between romantic partners that was wildly removed from its context and willfully misconstrued as if it were an earnest fetish for the sake of a punchline.

I could’ve actually found it in me to find this amusing if their attitude had been inclusive, but one of those girls literally appointed herself as bouncer and stood at the nearest door, arms folded, telling people they couldn’t come on. That’s some entitled bullshit.

Always beware the empty car. —an NYC Proverb

Wives of antiheroes get the absolute worst rap because they tend to act in a narrow set of functions. They’re either unknowing roadblocks like Rita on Dexter, completely ignorant of their husband’s deeds and always making needy phone calls at highly inopportune moments, which case people hate them for being oblivious…

She is stunning! I had to stare at her for a while before I even bothered to read the article. She got a nice even mix of both her parents’ features.

You must be eating the canned variety. You gotta buy them dry and soak ‘em overnight.

There are enough misandrist trolls on this site for that not to be a stretch of a read.

Huh? You can’t love your father and hate the patriarchy? Are we back to thinking that feminism means hating men?