#personal-stories
'Made a new Swedish friend': Good things that happened to The Local's readers in the past year
We asked The Local's readers to tell us about something good that happened to them in Sweden in the past year. They shared stories about friendship, citizenship, work, love and much more. Here's what they said.
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What It's Like to Date Amid a New Diagnosis
It was as cute a meet-cute as could be. Megan Nicklay, 29 years old at the time, had made it from New York City to Santiago, Chile, where she'd spend the next few weeks completing a summer internship she planned over a year ago. Luck would have it that the ma…