A Times article about a wedding between Katharine Ann Hagler and Douglas Steven Coppola Jr. reports that after the couple met in February 2007, "they promised to keep in touch. They kept that promise, racking up frequent-flier miles and large phone bills between her San Diego home near Chula Vista and his home in Princeton, where the men's rowing team was based."
"Large phone bills"? This is the modern world we are talking about here. Skype already existed for free Internet-based calling, and your landline or cellphone provider would sell you a plan for unlimited calling for a price that most people wouldn't consider "large." Maybe these guys were so smitten by romance that they neglected to organize their telecommunications in a cost-efficient manner, but without further explanation, the reports of "large phone bills" for domestic long-distance calls raise questions for Times readers about the veracity of the anecdote.