March is when 2020 started for me. End of March is when my good friend and I decided to postpone our annual joint birthday get-together, a cherished tradition where we’d pick one new, fancy restaurant each year and toast each other with champagne cocktails. Better safe than sorry, we’d wait a few weeks and reschedule. Same with my weekly bridge game. We cancelled on the last Sunday of March hoping we could resume the following week. I’ve got to cop to feeling annoyed with what was then the recommendation to self-quarantine for a couple of weeks but fine, okay, I can do that. Whatever.
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