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âOn paper, weâve only been together for around two and a half years,â says the painter Ivy Getty of her relationship with photographer Toby Engel. But in this pandemic-prompted, dog-year-style acceleration weâre living through, she reckons itâs been longer: âIf youâre spending lockdown with somebody, itâs like youâre together for triple the time.â Throngs of other pandemic-era loves have matched this paceâa 2020 trend dubbed the âturbo relationship.â âIt was like we pressed fast-forward,â Getty says. âBut it didnât feel rushed.â Still, when Engel proposed last summer, at a restaurant in Capri, Getty was taken aback. Only when he produced his motherâs sapphire ring did she realize what was happening. This November, the couple will marry at the San Francisco manse that once belonged to her grandmother Annâan antiquarian who filled the home with 18th-century furnishings and Chinese-export porcelain.