[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] One day in seventh grade, Rasheda Herndon walked up to Clyde Edwards, a tall, skinny, supernice guy in her class, and told him, “You’re going to be my boyfriend.”Mr. Edwards was down with that. But Ms. Herndon wasn’t sure she was allowed to date, so she told him that there would be no “funny business” and he was relegated to holding her hand on or around school property. Decades later, Ms. Herndon and Mr. Edwards reconnected on Facebook. They exchanged messages about running — Ms. Herndon is an avid marathoner — and then they met for dinner when Ms. Herndon was in Washington, D.C.“Bing, that was it,” Ms. Herndon said.

Source: New York Times February 13, 2019 20:48 UTC