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14 Feb, 7 tweets, 4 min read
Love is everywhere in Toronto. Listen in as nine couples — including high school sweethearts and a pair who bonded over a panic attack at the CN Tower — share their sweet, hilarious and heartwarming love stories.

#StarTogether #ValentinesDay issue:
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"We officially started dating over Skype, and he moved back to Toronto on my birthday as a surprise. We’ve been living together ever since.”

Tomo Hosogoe, clothing designer and Elaine Jyll Regio, creative consultant/stylist.

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“Met through a dating app in the summer of 2017. After our movie dates... she always had a lot to say about... and listening to her talk passionately inspired me to say ‘I love you."

Chinmoyee Debnath, nurse/painter and Joshua DePerry, DJ/music producer
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“I’d seen him out and about before, but funnily enough, I thought he was this straight model guy.” That led to sharing a bag of Starbursts while going home, and learning about each other on the walk.

Bobby Bowen and Brandon Tyler Wilson's story: thestar.com/life/together/…
‘The only way I could let the paramedics know I was OK was by kissing David’ By taking care of each other in ways big and small, Kateryna Flores and David Donato say they’ve become the best version of themselves.
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Marg Jamieson and Len Bolder met at a party in 1967. They started talking and didn’t stop until 2 a.m. Before then, Bolder didn’t believe in love at first sight: “I was proven wrong.” Now, we talk to them 57 years later.

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“I love that she is so kind. If we meet someone together, and they don’t like her, chances are we can’t be friends. She does not have a bad bone in her body.”

Wade Hudson, photographer and Simone Merrill, middle-school teacher.

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