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    Coincidental Sisters When Swiss-born Ursula joined the staff at one of the Vancouver School Board’s job s ...

    Coincidental Sisters When Swiss-born Ursula joined the staff at one of the Vancouver School Board’s job sites, she immediately came over to me after the staff introduction and said, “I have a sister n ...

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    The Monday Walking Group It started as an idea in the thick of the pandemic - fall 2020 - by a member of ...

    The Monday Walking Group It started as an idea in the thick of the pandemic - fall 2020 - by a member of Vancouver’s Brock House, a Point Grey Senior Centre. Linda’s invitation proposed a walk-and-tal ...

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    JEAN & MARIA At their mutual friend Angela’s family home in Heidelberg, Jean, a Parisian, and Maria, ...

    JEAN & MARIA At their mutual friend Angela’s family home in Heidelberg, Jean, a Parisian, and Maria, a Lebanese-Brazilian from Sao Paulo, first met in the late 1960s. Both in their 20s, they cross ...

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    Alena and Abe When Abe and Alena met, they were both in their mid-50s. By that time in their lives, each ...

    Alena and Abe When Abe and Alena met, they were both in their mid-50s. By that time in their lives, each of them was convinced that they would never meet a partner that suited them, so they were both ...

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    Kara & Wyatt Kara and Wyatt met in 2016 and married one year later.  Both in their late 50s at t ...

    Kara & Wyatt Kara and Wyatt met in 2016 and married one year later.  Both in their late 50s at the time, life gave them a second chance at love, and they took it.   Each had tragically l ...

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    CLOUD LOVERSIn 2006, when Patrizia was an educational consultant in Vancouver, designing curricula for se ...

    CLOUD LOVERSIn 2006, when Patrizia was an educational consultant in Vancouver, designing curricula for second-language learners, she decided to focus one project on the universally accessible topic of ...

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    MY RMT I first met her while I was face down on her massage table. She was referred by my regular guy, wh ...

    MY RMT I first met her while I was face down on her massage table. She was referred by my regular guy, who had left the city. She asked me what kind of music I’d like to listen to during the massage, ...

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    HENDRIKA & WILLEM When Hendrika, the second eldest of 11 children, emigrated to Canada from Holland i ...

    HENDRIKA & WILLEM When Hendrika, the second eldest of 11 children, emigrated to Canada from Holland in 1959 with her family, she didn’t know that Willem, a young Dutch engineer had also arrived in ...

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    OLIVIA & LUKE Living successfully on their own, almost 600 km apart, Luke and Olivia, both 70, decide ...

    OLIVIA & LUKE Living successfully on their own, almost 600 km apart, Luke and Olivia, both 70, decided, with the nudging of his family and her friends, to reach out for a possible romantic connect ...

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    Human Connections: How We Met: Doug & Ken

    Vancouverite Doug says he would probably never have met Ken, a US resident, and now his husband of more t ...

    Vancouverite Doug says he would probably never have met Ken, a US resident, and now his husband of more than 10 years, if he’d made different choices during his Christmas holidays in Puerto Vallarta i ...

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    HUMAN CONNECTIONS: HOW WE MET Odette & June

    The word “organizing” in an ad posted on a telephone pole in Vancouver a decade ago stopped June in her t ...

    The word “organizing” in an ad posted on a telephone pole in Vancouver a decade ago stopped June in her tracks. “I knew immediately that it was calling me,” she says. At the time, June was a semi-reti ...

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    Reboot August 2020

    DAVE MORRIS recently spent six months, instead of his usual three, in New Zealand, visiting his daughter ...

    DAVE MORRIS recently spent six months, instead of his usual three, in New Zealand, visiting his daughter and her family, when the pandemic put everyone in lockdown and closed the country’s borders. Wh ...

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    MIA JOHNSON returned to Vancouver after living in California to complete an art history degree at Emily C ...

    MIA JOHNSON returned to Vancouver after living in California to complete an art history degree at Emily Carr School of Art. She followed that up with a master’s degree and then a PhD in computer techn ...

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    PETER PHILLIPS says his upbringing in the British Midlands framed his lifelong values and philosophies th ...

    PETER PHILLIPS says his upbringing in the British Midlands framed his lifelong values and philosophies that include a strong work ethic and a commitment to family and community. Peter Phillips “It’s a ...

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    ROSEMARY NOWICKI found her poetic voice after she closed a successful contemporary furniture store in Van ...

    ROSEMARY NOWICKI found her poetic voice after she closed a successful contemporary furniture store in Vancouver in 2013. The former co-owner of entreNous, with partners Karen Nordin and Espe Thorleifs ...

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