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Oct 2021
31m 29s

The Sunday Read: ‘I Had a Chance to Trav...

The New York Times
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Jon Mooallem, the author of today’s Sunday Read, had a bad pandemic. “I began having my own personal hard time,” he writes. “The details aren’t important. Let’s just say, I felt as if I were moldering in place.” Then, The New York Times Magazine offered him the opportunity to fly somewhere for its travel issue — at that point he had spent 17 months parenti ... Show More
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