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In 2003, Dion Duporte and Tammy Fitzgerald-Duporte met during a shooting of the TV show “Doc” in Toronto. They fell in love, and Dion would pop the marriage question to Tammy on the front page of the Star.

18 years later, we caught up with them.
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.@kristynwongtam and @farrahsafiakhan met at a Star photo shoot in 2011. Now they’re married and enjoying parenthood. “Sometimes as queer people, we’re told we won’t be loved, or can’t get married or have kids. But we have the right to all those things."

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Leonora and Gerry Frenette: Their decades-long ‘magical’ romance began with a ‘companion wanted’ ad in the Star. When she came across Gerry’s ad, she’d already interviewed 68 men and nothing had clicked. Now, the couple runs a business together.

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"We have to look at our infrastructure and change it, so that we can stop losing Canadians to the U.S.," @directedbykells says. “I know I can go to the U.S. tomorrow and my career will be so fruitful," she adds.

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