Dispatches from a Porch Swing

Dispatches from a Porch Swing

Prologue

"We thought it would be over in a few months."

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Jen Deaderick
Nov 05, 2025
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Prologue

In the greater Boston area, we’d all known it was real when the bars were forced to close on Saint Patrick’s Day. It was shocking, but most of us still managed to stay in that “gosh, isn’t this weird” phase. It was springtime, and it wa…

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