Two Realtors Find Their Bashert
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Jimmy Baron proposed to Kira Shalman Karlin in Chicago this past Thanksgiving on the pitcher’s mound at the park where he grew up playing Little League. Both residential realtors who met through work, they married in a backyard ceremony May 20, where their families formally blended with three sons in tow. Fifty close family guests attended the ceremony while others came later for dessert. In terms of remarriage, Baron said, “You don’t feel the same societal and family pressure to get married as you do ATLANTA JEWISH TIMES
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when you’re in your late 20s or early 30s. You’re getting married more on your own terms.” Kira is enjoying Jimmy’s playfulness, and said, “Be it the occasional cracked egg on the forehead or his overexaggerated, stuntman-like falls, Jimmy keeps us laughing all day long. Congregation Beth Tefillah’s Rabbi Yossi New, who performed the nuptials, shared, “I am thrilled to have witnessed Kira and Jimmy’s genesis, in watching the relationship bloom. Their romance has flowered as they developed such a deep connection. It’s wonderful to be
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