'Modern Love'

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Ted Gup, She Slipped Past My Age Filter. They never would have matched online. Luckily he had time to kill in an airport. New York Times, Feb 17, 2019 ("Modern Love" column).
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/ ... -my-age-filter.html
("last winter when I had three hours to kill before my flight to London and found myself at the counter of Legal Sea Foods in the international terminal of Boston's Logan Airport. I had ordered a cup of chowder that was hot and creamy, thick with potatoes and clams.  To my right, at the corner of the counter, I sensed the presence of a woman. I stole a glance and nearly fell off my stool. She was luminous in a white turtleneck, her blond hair falling in perfect bangs above her eyes.  'Silly me,' I chided myself. She was nearly young enough to be my daughter. If I looked again, I feared I might not be able to look away.  So I stared into my chowder. The thought of actually speaking to her did not cross my mind. And then she asked me how my chowder was. I was sure her interests were purely in the chowder.  Seven months later, we are living together — Diana and her two daughters — in a Civil War-era house on Main Street in a tiny village in upstate New York. * * * I can be found occasionally delivering flowers for her flower shop, driving to remote country hollows * * * I fear I may have left something out between the airport chowder and the house on Main Street. It doesn’t help that I too am at a loss to explain just how I got here")

Note:
(a) hollow (n): "A hollow is also a small valley  <We hiked along Bear Hollow last weekend>"
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/hollow
(b) "One of our first evenings out took us to a distant funeral home on a curvy mountain road. We dropped off [flower] arrangements for the next morning's service."

(c) "My grandmother was president of the temple, her grandmother, a devout Mormon. * * * [introduction at the end:] TED GUP is writer-in-residence at Durham University in England and the author of several nonfiction books."
(i) A temple is another name for synagogue.  See temple
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple
(section 11 Jewish synagogues and temples)
(ii)
(A) Ted Gup
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Gup
(1950- )

his education: "Brandeis University, BA (cum laude), 1972; Case Western Reserve University, JD, 1978"  Encyclopedia.com (undated).
(B) Ted Gulp, A Yuletide Gift of Kindness; Seventy-five years later, Ted Gup learns the astonishing secret about his grandfather's generosity during the Great Depression. Smithsonian Magazine, December 2010
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/a ... -kindness-70852670/
("a mysterious 'B Virdot' took out a tiny ad in the [newspaper] Canton Repository, offering to help the needy before Christmas. * * * in the course of my research I discovered that his [Gup gbirth certificate was bogus. Instead of being born in Pittsburgh, as he had long claimed, he was a refugee from Romania who came to this land in his early teens and simply erased his past. Born an orthodox Jew and raised to keep kosher and speak Yiddish, he had chosen to make his gift on a gentile holiday, perhaps as a way of acknowledging his debt to a land that had accepted him")
(iii)
(A) Durham University (Oliver Cromwell in 1657 issued letters patent incorporating Durham College, which became a university in 1832; legally the University of Durham; public; in Durham)  en.wikipedia.org for "History of Durham University" and "Durham University."  
(B) Durham, England
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durham,_England
(county town of County Durham; section 1 Name)
(iv) For writer-in-residence, see artist-in-residence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist-in-residence

(d) "I tell you, honestly, that I was not seeking a younger woman. On a dating website reserved for the mature, I had set the minimum age at 60. I had no wish to be a doddering cliché. I knew the old saw: No fool like an old fool."
(i) Dodder (vi): "to tremble or shake from weakness or age"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dodder
(ii) There's no fool like an old fool
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/there's%20no%20fool%20like%20an%20old%20fool

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(2) A sidebar to the above is
Joyce Rutter Kaye, Our Goodbye.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/ ... n-love-stories.html

Note: Similar to mad cow disease, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD), named after two physicians who described it, is infectious if and only if a person contacts the nervous tissue of a patient.