How a Five Million Dollar Bet Led to an Unexpected Marriage in Queens

in the morning light, the sharp angle of his cheekbones less severe than they had been under the chandeliers of the Grand Astor ballroom.

“She sounds like she was a tough woman,” I said.

“She raised me after my mother died,” Taylor said, looking toward the tall windows where the gray morning pressed against the glass. “She lived in a drafty three-flat continue reading …