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How We Fall More In Love Every Day, Not Less
A pandemic love story.
Rachel and I had been friends on Facebook for over a decade. While we’d exchanged random messages over the years, we lived vastly different lives.
I was living in one-bedroom apartments in different parts of the country, driving a two-seater car, and exploring where I wanted my life to unfold and what I wanted it to look like.
Rachel had gotten married (and divorced), owned a large business, and had two children.
When the pandemic shut everything down, it affected both of our businesses, and we began exchanging innocent messages over Facebook once again. This was March of 2020.
“How’s this affecting your business?”
Eventually, it led to “meeting up” for virtual drinks over video chat…
Which turned into hours of video conversations and thousands of text messages. We’ve never gone a day without talking since.
Now, we live together with the two little girls and are building a life together.
Here’s the thing though, our relationship sprouted during a tumultuous time both in the world, and in each of our lives.
Rachel, a mother of two kids trying to keep a large business alive during a pandemic — which forced…
