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Don’t people take off their masks?

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Don’t people take off their masks?

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Jul 2, 2023
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Love at first sight must actually be a thing, something for which there is no protection, no masks.

COVID LOVE BY MAXWELL SEBASTIAN BURCHETT 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 111

People were grabbing toilet paper off the shelves as if their survival, their very lives, depended on it.

I had been smiling to myself at the craziness, but then I thought maybe I should grab some toilet paper too. I didn’t. Toilet paper was the least of my worries.

But I headed to the grocery aisles and loaded, and overloaded, my shopping cart with anything that looked as if it had a long use by.

That’s when I saw her. And she was looking at me. Oh god, she must be thinking that I was like the people in the next aisle fighting over toilet paper.

“Well, did you get some toilet paper?” Yes, that’s what I said to her. Probably the worst first line of all time. But it was so ridiculous that she stopped. Then laughed.

“No, I think I’m all set for toilet paper. I see you didn’t get any either. You must already have plenty of …

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