Going out is hard now, not just because it is relatively anxiety inducing, but because the masks fog up my glasses and the bandanas keep falling off, so it’s a lose-lose-lose proposition no matter what. My only release is running, which is a different kind of lose. This episode we’re talking about Natsume Ono’s Ristorante […]
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