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Spoiling Dino, Contemplating Nietzsche, Proposing Over Peking Duck

These sketches were written by Celestine Bohlen, Sarah Boxer, Michael Brick, Constance L. Hays, Tina Kelley, Dena Kleiman, Felicia R. Lee, Maria Newman, Mirta Ojito, Iver Peterson, Barbara Stewart and Debra West

2001

Overview

When [FRANKIE SERRANO] went shopping for [Dino], he spared no expense. ''He totally spoiled Dino,'' said Mr. Serrano's girlfriend, Kristen Gasiorowski. ''All the toys he bought him, you can't imagine. It was like it was his child.'' In fact, Dino was a dog, a year-old Neopolitan mastiff who weighed in at 109 pounds and slept in a king-size dog bed. By the time they married in November 1999, Mr. [ALBERT ALFY ELMARRY] had started work in New York at Cantor Fitzgerald. Ms. [Irinie Guirguis] followed him. They lived in an apartment in Edison, N.J., and embarked on an exciting new life together. Although they were sometimes homesick for their families in Egypt, it was clear that the job of Mr. Elmarry, who was 30, was going well -- so well that the couple decided to buy a house. After [Sigalit Cohen] danced with him, Mr. [ANDREW BRUNN] opened his life to her, revealing his passion for the ocean and for lighthouses, for movies that seemed to reflect their own story. They worked through the clashes between his Catholicism and her Judaism. Mr. Brunn, a devoted surfer, even persuaded Sigalit, who nearly drowned as a child, to join him on a flimsy board.

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