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Remembering how to get out of the doldrums
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a love story

Remembering how to get out of the doldrums

how to fall in love during a global pandemic

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Samuél Lopez-Barrantes
Aug 23, 2023
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I’ve been feeling a bit apathetic numb lately; as if my body and the surrounding world are made of cotton, which tends to coincide with not writing/reading/listening to or playing music as much as I’d like—which is another way of saying I do not have a routine.

This next chapter in my ongoing novella about how I fell in love with my now-wife from across…

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