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Over the past year, many of our key life events have been overshadowed by the pandemic.
Like millions of others, I celebrated my birthday in lockdown. I got engaged as cases were spiking again after the brief summer break. We tried to plan a Covid-secure wedding, then had to delay it anyway. I zoomed for birthday celebrations and farewell parties.
Christmas was spent apart from my parents, who I haven’t seen for almost a year. My friends have had babies I haven’t even met. Many of you will have experienced the unimaginable loss of loved ones to whom you were unable to say goodbye.
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Every so often, popular culture tilts on its axis and makes you feel unwittingly ahead of the curve.
It is a rare but significant event, like the passing of Halley’s Comet, when the vagaries of fashion and personal identity converge and meet for a few seconds in a tiny, bright spot that dazzles briefly before disappearing.
It happened with corduroy trousers: I wore them as a child when they were the epitome of cringe and then hipsters made them cool again. When the Twilight movies were all the rage in the early 2000s, my vampiric pallor that had caused me such angst as a teenager was suddenly de rigueur.