Despite the fact that Damon Dickinson and Neil Alpert are Jewish, the couple have celebrated Christmas with Mr. Dickinson’s family each of the last four years.

“Growing up Catholic, so many of my poignant life moments with my immediate or extended families were Christmas-related, so I have a lot of special memories there,” said Mr. Dickinson (left), 26, who converted to Judaism after the two began their relationship.

“Neil and I don’t celebrate Christmas in a religious sense, but in a more family-traditional sense,” added Mr. Dickinson, the director of operations and special projects at Potomac Management, a financial advisory firm in Washington. Mr. Alpert is the managing director of the firm.

He met Mr. Alpert, 42, in March 2013 at a coffee shop in Washington, when Mr. Dickinson was still a student at George Washington University, from which he graduated. The two stayed in touch and in September of that year, Mr. Dickinson began as one of several interns at LaserLock Technologies, the company for which Mr. Alpert was then the chief executive. They got to know each other more through shared volunteer work in Washington after Mr. Dickinson left the company and it was then that their relationship began to take a romantic turn.

Source: New York Times

Powered by NewsAPI.org