01/20/2022

Greetings From the Pandemic Memory Hole

For many, the last two years are one big blur

Even the memory of the time she forgot how old she was has gotten a little murky for Lauren Bendik.

"So, I’m trying to remember,” she says. “Um. I feel like there was a form, or there was something I was filling out, and I had to put down my age, and I had to think about it.”

She was 31, right? No, she was 32. Right. There had been two listless pandemic birthdays that had blurred into one, because two years have blurred into one, and it can be hard to pull them apart.

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