Many people are constantly lonely, thanks to social-distancing practices, and they are looking for new ways to connect and new people to connect with. Life in quarantine has been challenging for just about everyone. So in the interest of helping create a robust and comprehensive historical record, I’d like to note for posterity that the coronavirus pandemic of 2020 was a time during which scores of quarantined or self-isolating people reconnected with their exes. What often gets lost to history is how the moment in question affects the social and emotional lives of the ordinary people who survive it. When an event alters the life course of a generation, the official accounts usually have the best chance of surviving as historical records: speech transcripts from heads of state front-page newspaper photos in the case of a war or a disaster or a pandemic, the final body count.
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