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StoryCorps: A love story that started with an email

Ann Taylor and Sonja Furiya at their StoryCorps interview in St. Louis
Emily Janssen
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Ann Taylor and Sonja Furiya at their StoryCorps interview in St. Louis.

Having lived in St.Louis for 15 years, Ann Taylor was looking to meet new people. She received an email about a queer ballroom dancing class and decided to go.

Ann Taylor and Sonja Furiya at the World Out Games in Copenhagen in 2009.
Courtesy of Sonja Furiya
Ann Taylor and Sonja Furiya at the World Out Games in Copenhagen in 2009.

This led Ann to become something she never imagined, a dancer.

Ann came to StoryCorps with her wife Sonja Furiya to reflect on the day they met in that dance class in 2005.

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Originally aired June 28, 2023, on NPR’s Morning Edition.