WTF is the New York Times thinking with this now-deleted tweet?!

Mr. Fazio was already married when he met Abby, but he noticed an instant connection between the two. "We knew we had something special. But she was 16 and too young. I was willing to wait." https://t.co/EKUd8dApxF pic.twitter.com/Igmq15QSa0 — NY Times Weddings (@nytimesvows) July 17, 2019

Screenshots are forever, paper of record:

They deleted the tweet but the article is still up. https://t.co/Y2AKD6s6i4 pic.twitter.com/LWcl0dCN4s — Michael David Smith (@MichaelDavSmith) July 17, 2019

He wasn’t just “already married.” He was 27 at the time, her boss and they didn’t really wait:

“I was 16 and very shy, John was 11 years older than me,” Ms. Mouzakitis-Fazio said. “I liked him. I didn’t think he liked me back.” He did, even though he was married at the time. Over the next two years, there were deep glances and flirting. The two would have breakfast or coffee together, they would hold hands, and he would walk her home. “We would write little notes to each other, he would kiss me on my forehead,” she said. “A slow love was happening without either of us knowing it. I always wanted to be with him, talk to him, but it wasn’t allowed because he wasn’t Greek and he was married, but not happily.”

Eventually, she married someone else, but she still had feelings for her old boss:

Ms. Mouzakitis-Fazio knew she had to find someone else, and in 1980 she met a man on a bus going from New York to Washington. “We were going to a rally for Cyprus to protest in front of the White House,” she said. “He was from the same Greek Island as my family and part of my Greek community. He had charisma. I made it O.K. in my mind, but it wasn’t.” The two wed a year later. “At my wedding I kept wishing John would save me and marry me instead,” she said. “My husband made me quit my job, so I would call John once a week just to hear his voice.”

The term for this is “grooming” and no wonder they deleted it:

the “waiting” he describes is also known as “grooming” https://t.co/e0hacpSvvQ — Claire Fallon (@ClaireEFallon) July 17, 2019

Am I reading this wrong or is the New York Times saying we can celebrate a relationship that started as an extramarital affair between a man and his much-younger employee because the man didn't act on his attraction to her until she was no longer a child? https://t.co/kTfmN3znL2 — Michael David Smith (@MichaelDavSmith) July 17, 2019

Today’s Vows column brought to you by the good people at Epstein Industries Inc. https://t.co/qQYJDOSWlV — Helen Kennedy (@HelenKennedy) July 17, 2019

Some screenshots of the article in case they delete that, too:

NYT weddings just deleted a tweet promoting a dude for going full Roy Moore. It's still in the article tho https://t.co/A9LngUeWi5 pic.twitter.com/PRRYVQqOnG — joe (@JoePerticone) July 17, 2019

How did this get published?

she was 16 and he was 27, but a relationship wasn't allowed because… he was married and wasn't Greek?!? NYTimes, wyd????https://t.co/yVx1uxctlR pic.twitter.com/2WQKg8ENKH — Jenna Amatulli (@ohheyjenna) July 17, 2019

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