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    Listen: Will You Merge Bubbles With Me?

    A guide to dating and relationships during the pandemic
    May 11, 2020 5 minutes
    Source: Toby Melville / Reuters / The Atlantic

    On this episode of the Social Distance podcast, staff writer Joe Pinsker joins James Hamblin and Katherine Wells to discuss the new rituals and ethical conundrums of dating and socializing in this moment.

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    What follows is an edited and condensed transcript of their conversation.

    Katherine Wells: We’ve gotten a lot of questions from listeners about two related categories of things. One is friendships and socializing. Who can I hang out with? How? And then also dating and relationships, which is particularly fraught given its connection to being physically close to other people.

    James Hamblin: Let’s get specific. Do people do anything besides going for a walk on a date right now, or is that the thing?

    I think that being

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