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I've been spending a lot of time thinking about summer recently.

Last year, I took a couple weeks off at the end of August, went to the beach.

It felt like an indulgence. But this year, I've been trying to figure

out if there's going to be any way to take a vacation from the coronavirus. It turns out

Ed Yong over the Atlantic, he's been wandering the same thing. Your article was called

Our Pandemic Summer.

And before this pandemic, I'm just wondering what you thought your summer was going to be like.

I actually didn't know.

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