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POINT OF VIEW / The virus hits us hard, in many ways. One aspect that we have barely touched on is the impact on our friendships. Even long-standing ones – in my case, especially – did not survive.
Au least three of these ruptures are indirectly linked to COVID-19. Including the one with a nice 75-year-old lady – who will perhaps recognize herself – who sees this pandemic as a fallacious nonsense in which she does not believe at all, rather liking the risk.
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I knew this lady at the Maison de la Littitterature, nine months before the crisis. We became friends, to the point of exchanging our emails. And to send him a copy of one of my novels, entitled The right wants to kill me!
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Premonitory title? Still, she bought the thesis of the conspirators, that she defended it in our texts on Messenger. Before breaking up with me, on a donkey kick, about the travelers who went to the South, evoking a “karma”. Phew!
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What has become of her since? Mystery and rubber ball … And I want to know more or less, as his thesis of negation of the virus in connection with a “karma” horrifies me. But it remains a lost friendship at the hands of COVID-19.
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This damn virus that breaks friendships, grrr …!
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