The New York Times is getting a lot of criticism for running
this recent "Vows" story about a married man and a married woman -- each with three kids -- who dumped their spouses and married after becoming infatuated when they met in their children's pre-kindergarten classroom.
Perhaps this is why the Gray Lady decided to also run
this slightly less sensational counterpart. The details -- "the relationship went no further until that November when Mr. Magee, who had a scouting trip planned, called her and asked if she would drive him to the airport," "I decided I’d come over and watch TV,” she said, but brought her two cats along as chaperones, and “I knew every Monday he would be there by a certain time, so I always dressed cuter,” she said -- are so, um,
riveting that you almost
have want to believe that it was concocted by by The Times to offer some balance to the sleazier page lede. “I made her dinner and then she slept over, but we didn’t even kiss.” (I mean,
really?) If not the doing of The Times, then perhaps something more nefarious. As Susan said to Gary Glass as she flipped through wife Roberta's diary, "It's gotta be a cover, nobody's life could be this boring."
The New York Times is getting a lot of criticism for running this recent "Vows" story about a married man and a married woman -- each with three kids -- who dumped their spouses and married after becoming infatuated when they met in their children's pre-kindergarten classroom.
Perhaps this is why the Gray Lady decided to also run this slightly less sensational counterpart. The details -- "the relationship went no further until that November when Mr. Magee, who had a scouting trip planned, called her and asked if she would drive him to the airport," "I decided I’d come over and watch TV,” she said, but brought her two cats along as chaperones, and “I knew every Monday he would be there by a certain time, so I always dressed cuter,” she said -- are so, um, riveting that you almost 
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