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The guilt of complaining about anything right now

HEN FRIENDS ASK HOW WE’RE DOING, I ANSWER LIKE everyone else who has both a job and their health: I say I’m lucky and so grateful. Then I joke about how at the start of the stay-at-home orders, my kids and I divided up our 1,100-sq.-ft. apartment into quadrants like Berlin after the war. They are back home for all the reasons everyone’s college-age children are home. And let’s just say young adults are not the only ones who regress

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