My friend looked at me over her frayed fine turtleneck, her chin drooping slightly over its threads. The exhaustion wafted from her eyes. “This whole thing is just stupid…” “Well,” I said, “just because something is stupid, does not mean it won’t last long.” When the pandemic came, it struck my friend, Rachel Ransom, as very surprising. She was a millenialist and did not think it possible, in our progressive day and age…
