Everyone's lonely but no one can hang out
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This year my husband decided to set an ambitious New Years resolution...
This year my husband decided to set an ambitious New Years resolution: Every Saturday of 2025 that we’re in town, we’ll have people over for dinner. Objectively, this is a crazy thing to try to do. I was dubious when he told me — “seems like a lot of work for you,” I said, since he’s the one that does all the cooking, and the idea that we’d be able to keep this up with everything else going on this year seemed bananas. His case for trying was twofold. First, quite practically, we had to fill the time. Over the last year, we’ve built a delightful Saturday morning routine, putting our…
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