![]() ![]() How were people supposed to date during a pandemic? I tried to be upbeat, but it was hard not to think she was right. “Yes, it is! How am I supposed to meet anyone? It’s not like I can go on Tinder. “I have no career, no love life, and I live with my parents on an island that’s been cut off from the rest of society.” She’d finally emerged from quarantining after moving back home from Los Angeles, where she’d been furloughed from her job as a publicist. ![]() “My life is over,” my neighbor’s 30-year-old daughter Fiona* said to me over socially distanced glasses of wine on my porch two weeks later. In an effort to prevent the spread of Covid-19, they not only shut down bars, beaches, and restaurants, they even established checkpoints so that no one could enter the island chain unless they could prove residency. ![]() My husband and I were eating lunch at one of our favorite burger joints in Key West, Florida, where we’ve lived for 15 years, when the news broke that county officials had decided to close the Florida Keys. Ahead of the release of her latest novel, No Offense, Cabot reflects on the neighborhood romance that restored her faith in love in the time of coronavirus. Meg Cabot is the bestselling author of over 80 books, many of which center on romance. ![]()
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