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Virtual Relationships

       Like everyone else in the world, I was not expecting my 2020 to be as such. This was supposed to be the year of change; I would finally put a period to my long high school years and start off an entirely new life as a college student. Senior prom, graduation, cocktail parties, a family trip to Turkey and Greece, freshmen orientation and the list goes on and on with the things I had been looking forward to so much. However, the reality did not grant me any of this and I was (voluntarily) confined to my room for three-fourth of the year.       I was in Brazil when the pandemic started and situations actually got downhill for me around mid-March. I remember how my friends and I talked about the virus as a foreign thing in my lastever high school trip in the beginning of March. But soon after that, it became too much of a reality for us. I found myself downloading Zoom on my laptop, my parents getting face masks for us and the IB cancelling exa...