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My relationship of four years failed the pandemic test, and I moved from Brooklyn to West Virginia.Huge swaths of unfilled time forced me to confront loneliness and depression like never before.Here's how I imperfectly remade a life in a virtual world...
I met my ex-partner on a bus at a bluegrass festival in North Carolina, the first time I ever deliberately said hi to a stranger..
As I trekked to the airport the following Saturday, I had that familiar feeling of rediscovering that maybe things were OK the whole time..
Those surveys ask respondents not just about their isolation but how they're experiencing themselves and the world around them.. "How often do you feel that there is no one you can turn to?" a common survey question asks, continuing: "How often do you feel that people are around you but not with you?"..
The pain that found me many Saturdays in Morgantown could follow me anywhere, from the crowded pit of a Rfs Du Sol concert to a campsite for two nested perfectly by West Virginia's Cranberry River..
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