A Year Into the Pandemic, I Miss Connecting With Strangers

Eliza VanCort
5 min readFeb 8, 2021
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We live in a time when getting too close to others might literally kill us, and that simple but horrific fact has changed everything. Our ability to connect has been compromised by forced distance from one another, and it’s taking a heavy toll.

Recently I was at a local café when, without warning, a woman bolted out of line and walked over to an isolated table…

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