The Greatest Lesson of the Pandemic Is Commitment

What a woman in her seventies has learned from dating in the time of Covid

Sara Davidson
Forge
Published in
5 min readAug 26, 2020

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In March, when the stay-at-home order came down with a thud, I found myself in a relationship that quickly became more intense and consuming than any I’d had for a decade. In my seventies, I’d recently met a man on a dating site who seemed “possible,” if…

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Sara Davidson
Forge
Writer for

Sara Davidson is the N.Y. Times best-selling author of Loose Change, The December Project, and The Didion Files, 50 Years of Friendship with Joan Didion