Love columnist Kellie Patrick Gates writes from the Montgomery County home she shares with her extraordinary husband, a formerly stray cat and an adopted greyhound.
Born and raised in Elk County, Gates previously was an award-winning news reporter for The Inquirer and other newspapers in Pennsylvania, New York and Florida.
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- Gallery: Love: Katie Kopacz & Nick Murri
Love: Hanging out with a married couple helped bring Katie and Nick together. They hit the jackpot in Atlantic City and have been living in heaven ever since.
- Gallery: Love: Stephanie Valerio and Adam Macie
- 'How was your trip?'
- 'If I ever marry anyone, it will be Katie'
Love: Stephanie saw Adam's picture on a MySpace page and sent him an e-mail. A conversation started but Adam couldn't help but wonder, why was Stephanie messaging him if her status said she was engaged?
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'He let me become more of a dreamer...'
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Love: Dana has always been practical and Andrew has always been spontaneous. Together they compliment each other as the perfect counterpart.
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Voice of a siren lent to love
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Love: Robin, an aspiring Broadway singer, and Sean, an aspiring late-night talk-show host, met at Magnet Theater. Sean soon thought of Robin as “the cute intern.” But he had no idea she was interested in him.
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Club was cheesy, but she found a partner
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Love: Together they saw Prague, Barcelona, Rome, Florence, Budapest. Somewhere along the way, their mutual effort not to lose their hearts to someone who really lived thousands of miles away began to fail.
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One lunch, and smitten
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Love: They were introduced at a lunch with a mutual friend at P.F. Chang's. At the end of the meal, David handed Michelle the screw-top cap from their bottle of wine and said, "It's going to mean something one day."
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Tall was good, tattoos sealed the deal
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Love: Melissa had a profile on the OKCupid dating site for nearly three months by September 2010, and she had thoughts of canceling her membership until she received a virtual wink.
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Happy campers at last
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Love: All that 12-year-old Lauren wanted in early summer 1999 was to go home to Dresher. Sticking it out changed Lauren's life - and Matt's. But that would take a while.
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Romance that reached across states
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Love: Next time you post you're bored on Facebook, you just might get a fateful invitation.
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Ringing in a new year, and life together
- December 31, 2011, in Cherry HillIt all began when the dating site eHarmony told Lisa and Ray that they might make a good pair. See how this amazing race ended with a proposal next to a waterfall in Guyana.
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He was the best part of class
- December 2, 2011, in PhiladelphiaLove: It had been 8 years since Vince was the cool senior in art class at Archbishop Ryan and Maureen hadn't thought about him since. An Eagles tailgate would bring them together again.
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Another match from the 'marriage factory'
- December 16, 2011, in PerkasieVicki was psyched to start her new job at Vanguard, which she found out is known as the 'marriage factory.' It didn't take long to find her Mr. Right after Vanguard worked its marriage mojo.
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