How Connecting With Strangers Shapes Us

And Finding That Again In A Pandemic

Mel Rie

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Photo by Wyron A on Unsplash

At the store today an older man dropped his keys and couldn’t reach them from his wheelchair. He called out and I walked over to help. As I leaned down to pick up the keys, though, I hesitated. I haven’t been near someone I don’t know since February, before the pandemic.

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