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June 27, 2025, 1:01 p.m. Eastern time

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10 Years of Marriage Equality: ‘With the Stroke of a Pen, Our Lives Changed Completely’

A decade after the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, we asked people from across the country to share stories of what the ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges has meant to them.

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The Lumberjack Psychic Is Never Wrong

My friend and I learned how our romantic futures would unfold from a very unlikely source.

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Tiny Love Stories: ‘Nudes of the Man I Miss’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.

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To Share or Not to Share? How Location Sharing Is Changing Our Relationships

Arlon Jay Staggs knew it was time to stop sharing his location with his mother, but with everything his family was going through, he just couldn’t figure out how to tell her.

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