‘Wow Everything’s Gone’: The Covid Class of 2020
Charlie Forster was at the library one afternoon in March when he ran into a friend from Allderdice High School in Pittsburgh. "I was like, 'Do you want to come over to my house?" he said. "So we took the bus home and made grilled cheeses and watched that movie 'Her,'" which explores isolation and relationships nurtured via electronic devices. Little did he know that the coronavirus that was spreading across the country would give him and his friends their own lesson in being alone. Their new life started to become clear not long after, when Charlie checked in with another friend about plans to meet for lunch. "She was like, 'My parents -- my mom just read an article about social distancing and is outlawing any get-togethers,'" he recalled. And so that was it. That bland Friday afternoon of grilled cheese and watching "Her" was the last social occasion of senior year, filling in for gradu...
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