New York Times

It was an impromptu reunion, the kind of get-together that wouldn’t have been promised to either of them 2 decades earlier, when Lindsey Wilkerson and Joel Alsup were childhood cancer patients receiving treatments at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis. In 1987, Joel and his family had learned he had osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer, which resulted in the amputation of his right arm. 4 years later, Lindsey learned that she had acute lymphoblastic leukemia. “St. Jude saved both of our lives,” she said. Today, both of them are cancer-free — and they both work at St. Jude’s. “Joel and I desire to give these patients the love and care that was given to us at their age,” she said. Joel said that the day Lindsey “walked back through the door at St. Jude,” was the day a friendship was reignited. For about 12 years, they were close friends. Their relationship remained platonic until 2 and a half years ago. “I liked him first,” she said, laughing. “So the ball had been in his court for nearly 25 years.” On September 1, the 2 #cancersurvivors — who were photographed here by @houstoncofield — were married at the hospital. Visit the link in our profile to read their story.

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Hesham al-Omaisi, a Yemeni asylum seeker, preparing dinner at a guesthouse in Jeju, a resort island in South Korea. Jeju has been receiving a new type of visitor — asylum seekers fleeing the catastrophe in Yemen. When @airasia began running direct budget flights from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Jeju in December, the island caught the attention of Yemeni asylum seekers. In the first 5 months of this year, 561 Yemenis arrived, up from 51 in 2017. “Jeju was our best option,” said Jamal Nasiri, a former agricultural official in Yemen. “We think about our future, how to keep our children safe and send them to school for a better life, because we are humans.” Migrants like Jamal and Hesham expected a warm welcome in Jeju. But their arrival has created a wave of opposition, leading to what’s considered South Korea’s first organized anti-asylum movement. Taken aback by the reaction, President Moon Jae-in — himself a son of wartime refugees from North Korea — has vowed to revise the laws to tighten screening of refugee applicants. @junmichaelpark took this photo on the island of #Jeju. Visit the link in our profile to read more.

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