Your Pre-2020 Self Is Gone Forever

And that’s not necessarily a bad thing

Kelli María Korducki
Forge
Published in
4 min readDec 3, 2020

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On a recent Sunday afternoon, while typing emails on an unheated outdoor patio as the temperature descended from “nippy” to “fucking cold,” it occurred to me that there’s no bouncing back from a year like this. The pandemic will end, but our pre-2020 selves are gone forever. And that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

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Kelli María Korducki
Forge
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