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Day 8: Social Distancing is a Cruel Misnomer
Day 8: Social Distancing is a Cruel Misnomer

It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. Thank you, Charles Dickens. Could there be a better opening sentence to describe our current situation? Only this one a friend sent me from LitHub.com rewriting first sentences of great literature for social distancing. My favorite was, “FaceTime me, Ishmael.”

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