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<em>The Atlantic</em> Daily: Design Your Own Ideal Post-pandemic Social Life

Americans may soon be able to gather and go out safely again. Does that sentence fill you with excitement or dread?
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In the coming months, much of the, my colleague Joe Pinsker predicts: who will sign up for more concerts and parties and weddings and casual hangs and after-work drinks, and who will take the opportunity to slow down from their pre-pandemic social calendar, wondering if maybe there were some benefits to this whole social-distancing thing.

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