Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Quietly, Foolishly Eloped’
She Chose Another Road I have a drawer full of magic. Serums, powders, creams, all promising to reverse time. Every day it takes me a bit longer to look how I think I should.
My daughter, now 14, says she has no interest in “patriarchal standards of beauty.” I am at once glad and worried: glad she won’t be joining me on this Sisyphean road but worried she may be judged for her choice.
I am also optimistic; perhaps someday I can walk away from my regimen. Until then, I am proud of my daughter for her confidence in opting out of my wishful thinking. — Jenny Fan Raj ‘Love Can’t Wait’ It was a freezing spring day in Central Park, cold even for two Irish girls.
We embellished our wedding dresses with $5 pashminas, hastily purchased in Chinatown. Angeline and I exchanged vows in New York in 2014, a year before same-sex marriage became legal in Ireland by a popular vote.
