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Opinion | The long-awaited date

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It’s been ages since she’s been out on a proper date. For most of the pandemic she has been alone. And most of the time that was just fine. Sometimes more than fine. She likes that she doesn’t have to go to the office. Most of all, she likes quiet. What she doesn’t like are the long stretches without touch …Solitude is a great thing. Isolation, not so much. So tonight, she is putting on a purple and yellow scarf to add a dash of color to the late-winter gray. It’s not that she is desperate to find someone. She just wants to feel normal again. To hang out. To go on a date once in a while …To sometimes have a little hope. To sometimes have a little heartbreak. It feels good to let your nose out. A sigh of relief. She’s boosted and optimistic that after such a long time …at least for tonight …she’s going out …in the world …again.

It’s been ages since she’s been out on a proper date. For most of the pandemic she has been alone. And most of the time that was just fine. Sometimes more than fine. She likes that she doesn’t have to go to the office. Most of all, she likes quiet. What she doesn’t like are the long stretches without touch …Solitude is a great thing. Isolation, not so much. So tonight, she is putting on a purple and yellow scarf to add a dash of color to the late-winter gray. It’s not that she is desperate to find someone. She just wants to feel normal again. To hang out. To go on a date once in a while …To...

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Sergio Peçanha is a visual columnist at the Opinions desk of the Washington Post. He uses visual elements like illustrations, cartoons, maps, information graphics and videos to tell stories. Before joining The Post in 2019, he was a graphics editor at The New York Times for more than a decade, where he created visual stories for the International desk and the New York desk. Peçanha graduated in journalism from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. His work has been recognized multiple times by the Society for News Design and the Malofiej infographics awards, in Spain, including Gold medals, and he has served as a judge in both contests. He is a native of Rio, and speaks Portuguese and Spanish.

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