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Destination 2021: What we’ll do differently next year

Posted on AllSides January 1st, 2021

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Monitor staffers weigh in on lessons from a year in isolation – and what they yearn to do most coming out of the pandemic. As 2020 shudders to an end, many of us will be eager to move on, hoping that 2021 shows a path out of a pandemic that has upended our way of life. In that spirit, we asked Monitor writers and editors, near and far, to reflect on what COVID-19 has taken away and what, paradoxically, it has given us. It’s a journey into what we yearn...

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