I Met a New Me, and I Like Her
Covid-19 forced me to pare down this overscheduled life and embrace myself
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4 min readJul 15, 2020
Two years ago, I called my mom in a panic and asked if I could borrow a bit of basil. I was whipping up a quick dinner and in a mad dash through the grocery store, had forgotten to grab it. A while later she rang my doorbell and handed me a potted basil plant. I stared at it in utter…