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A Break-Up Letter to Pandemic Pals
This Was Always Going to Be a Short-Term Thing
Hey Jeff and Sarah,
Hope you’re doing well! Unfortunately, we have to decline your offer of dinner this weekend, because we already have plans. We’d take a raincheck, except we’re actually busy every weekend. Forever.
You know how it is, people are getting vaccinated, bars and restaurants are opening up, even movie theatres, and we just find ourselves with way better offers now.
After living a few doors down from each other for years and never getting to know you till last April, we want you to know that we absolutely appreciate your friendship over the past 14 months.
We don’t know how we would have filled the early days of the pandemic without your sourdough starter. And the use of one half of your chest freezer made it so much easier to panic buy. Not to mention that your homemade hand sanitizer made a great cocktail!
It’s not like we didn’t appreciate your Costco membership and toilet paper runs. In fact, we appreciated them so much that we were willing to overlook your disagreeing with us last summer that all lives matter.
It was great that little Jack and Tommy were able to play together in the afternoons when…
