From K-QED.

Hi, you're listening to Bay Curious.

I'm Katrina Schwartz.

Before we get to the show this week, I have a little favor to ask.

We're pulling together an episode to mark the one-year anniversary of the Bay Area's first

shelter-in-place order, and we want to feature your stories about this past year.

Maybe you learned that you love to dance,

or went through a breakup.

Did living under COVID bring your family together,

or make you feel further apart. Or maybe you've overcome a challenge.

Bicurious producer Susie Racho and I have been asking ourselves the same questions.

Susie, how has your life changed this past year?

Well, for me, I think the biggest change was that I started to really appreciate

living in San Francisco, unlike a lot of people who wanted to move out as soon as they could.

For me, my world got very small like a lot of other people and I lived near Golden Gate Park, but I really took it for granted.

And there are just so many spots in Golden Gate Park

that I had never been to, even though I had lived on both sides

of the park for a lot of years,

and I just learned how to appreciate the city in a way that I

you know basically didn't have time for before so what about you know, honestly, I feel like I've gotten old in the past year. I used to be really busy. I had something every night of the week. I was out. I almost was never home until 9 p.m. either at the gym or

meeting up with a friend or doing something with my ultimate frisbee team and you know all

those things have been kind of stripped away and so now I'm home all the time I like you know go for a

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