This Is Us
Reclaiming Friendship in the Age of Isolation
Quarantine has me longing for an intimacy I didn’t know I missed
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9 min readOct 22, 2020
Deep into state-mandated quarantine, two of my dearest friends come to my house to drink wine and eat take-out on my roof. Maybe it’s the shared experience of pent-up-ness, six months into being told friends are off limits; maybe it’s…