This Is Us

The Risks of Taking My Quarantine Romance from DM to IRL

He was more than just a fun distraction, but was it worth the leap?

Sara K. Runnels
Human Parts
Published in
23 min readOct 16, 2020

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Sunset with two champagne glasses.
Photo courtesy of the author.

A thing they don’t tell you about starting a relationship — of any caliber — in quarantine is that there is absolutely nowhere to put your feelings. They stay contained, like yourself, in a 500-square-foot studio

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Sara K. Runnels
Human Parts

Copywriter by day. Humor writer by night. Exhausted by afternoon. @omgskr / sararunnels.com