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Trying out for a step team at Georgia State University was a really big deal for Tori Cariah. She was a shy 18-year-old, an education major whose dream was to become a middle schoolteacher; step-dancing with Quiet Storm took her way out of her comfor...

The cha-cha, the samba, the waltz — Rosalie Davis does them all on Friday nights. She’s part of The Jasmine Dancers, a group of ballroom lovers who dance in the Jasmine Lounge at the Fairmont Southampton each week. Restaurant patrons often think the...

Chris West and Deni Hlavinka were having a drink in a Boston bar when another couple caught their attention. From their nervous awkwardness, the musicians deduced they were on their first date. Now engaged, it took them back to the breathlessness of ...

Ever since she could remember, Mahkai Outerbridge wanted to be an actress. In January, she thought she was on her way when a Los Angeles agency took her on as a client. Three months later, everything changed. She found out she was pregnant. “My first...

If any child had a reason to grow into an angry, hate-filled adult it would have been Zak Ebrahim. At 10, his father was convicted of terrorism and murder. As a teenager, his stepfather beat him. At school, his classmates teased him mercilessly. How...

Kendra-Lee Pearman always thought her diet was healthy and she was vegan before vegan was a buzzword. However, she started putting on weight at the age of 43. “My dress size went from 8 to 10 to 12 to 14,” the 54-year-old said. “Then, I was pushing...

Lawson Mapp jokingly refers to himself as the last of the dinosaurs. He thinks he’s the only sign painter on the island who still works entirely by hand. “There are many sign painters in Bermuda today, but most of them rely on computers and don’t kno...

It’s not always easy being the child of a trained chef, even if you love cooking. Liz Tee’s father Joe is always grumbling about her knife skills. “If he sees me chopping he’ll say: ‘Liz, get those fingers out of the way!’” she said. “I never cut my...

Rose-Anna Hoey realises she regularly gives Railway Trail users a bit of a fright. She’s out running every morning at 4am; her footsteps are light, the beam from her tiny torch is often the only signal of her approach. “Sometimes the walkers don’t he...

Marguerite Bean took early retirement in 2000 with two things on her bucket list. The first was an Alaskan cruise. “I went and had a good time,” the 78-year-old said. Her second plan was to go back to school. She’d wanted to be a nurse since childh...