Love at First Quarantine, The Sequel

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4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

When the pandemic hit back in March, Gali Beeri and Joshua Boliver decided to quarantine together, after their very first date. Today on the show, we check back in with them — eight months later — to see how a new relationship weathers a pandemic. Their story is part of our series Hunker Down Diaries, stories of people in unexpected situations during the pandemic. You can listen to the whole series on past episodes of the Radio Diaries Podcast.

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0:00.0	Radio Topia. From PRX is Radio Topia, this is Radio Diaries. I'm Joe Richmond.
0:10.0	When the pandemic hit back in March, we launched a new series called Hunger Down Diaries,
0:15.0	stories of people thrown together in unexpected circumstances.
0:19.0	Today on the show, we're checking back in with one of those stories.
0:22.0	It's called Love at First Quarantine.
0:28.8	The psychotherapist Esther Perrell has pointed out that disasters, like say a global pandemic,
0:35.0	often operate like relationship accelerators.
0:37.8	They cause both a spike in divorce and a spike in marriages and babies. But what does a relationship accelerator do for practical strangers?
0:45.9	Golly Baerri is 37 and works as an executive assistant. Joshua Bolivar is 42 and does visual effects for movies.
0:54.0	They both live in New York City, and when the city was preparing to lock down back in March,
0:58.5	they made the unlikely decision to quarantine together after just one date.
1:06.4	Check one, too. So that's recording.
1:07.8	Okay.
1:09.5	We are currently at my house in Astoria, Queens, New York City.
1:15.0	Which is now kind of my apartment.
1:18.0	And you just looked at the date.
1:22.0	I was looking at the calendar earlier. That was March 11th,
1:25.0	20 that we had our first date, which is a pretty big week in the city. That was my last week going into the office.
1:36.3	We had like all these little micro moments before that.
1:40.4	I was smitten and you had such a full life and a busy life and it was like you were giving me these little snippets like come and meet me at Trader Joe's I'm doing grocery shopping and I can hang out with you for a minute afterwards.
1:55.3	You know, I can come to your work when you're done with work and so we met on the steps next to
1:59.6	Penn Station.
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