24 ways we’ve changed during the pandemic that I hope never change back
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Today 6:30 AM
A sign outside of Morristown Medical Center. (Steve Strunsky | NJ Advance Media)Steve Strunsky | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
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“Are you at Target pickup
again?” I ask in disbelief, since she was there yesterday and the day before that, too.
“Yes,” she admits. “I need an intervention.”
She got me hooked, too: The last time I did one, the whole exchange was so fast I’m not even sure my car ever came to a complete stop. The level of convenience felt criminal.
I’m not the same person I was a year ago and neither are you. How we survived the most unusual year of our lives.
Updated Mar 19, 2021;
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The last time I was in a crowd of people a real crowd, not the checkout at Home Depot was Jan. 28.
I got up at 5 a.m. to join the Trump line, that is the thousands who had converged, some of them days in advance, outside the Wildwood Convention Center in the hopes of sharing a room with the president.