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A Good Dentist Is Hard To Find

Huppah Dreams

by
Marc Tracy
March 14, 2011
Rebecca Wyman and Lee Gold.(NYT)
Rebecca Wyman and Lee Gold.(NYT)

Each Monday, we choose the most interestingly Jewish announcement from that Sunday’s New York Times Weddings/Celebrations section. This week, our winner proclaimed the nuptials of Rebecca Burke Wyman and Dr. Lee Adam Gold. They met because the bridegroom was the bride’s dentist, and when she first visited him—having not been to the dentist in several years—she had a root canal and multiple cavities, necessitating several follow-ups and the development of a relationship, albeit of the strictly dentist-patient variety. Indeed, Wyman knew that dating Gold would necessitate ending the toothy affair, but it seemed worth it: As she told her mother, “There’s lots of dentists in Manhattan, but good guys are hard to find.” Mazel tov!

Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.