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I was out of a nine-year relationship when I went to buy a midcentury table from a stranger for my new apartment. Meeting the seller caused my heart to open again.

Kick the day off with a beach run before a jam-packed food crawl and a smidge of shopping.

A destructive wildfire burned through a third of Santa Rosa Island. For one reporter, the loss isn't theoretical -- it's a personal reckoning with a changing paradise.