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When we met amid social distancing, it felt like starting our friendship from scratch

On March 25, I met a friend for a picnic near my home.   For about eight months, he and I had gradually become accustomed to spending more and more time together.  Before social distance began, we routinely spent 10-12 hours a week together, sharing meals, errands, conversations, and artistic projects, with the occasional evening date […]

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What a zombie apocalypse, plus Aristotle, can teach us about friendship in the time of coronavirus

“For without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods… And in poverty and in other misfortunes men think friends are the only refuge.” — Aristotle, “Nicomachean Ethics,” Book VIII. In the above video clip, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, best friends in real life, are resurrecting their beloved characters […]