Nothing makes for better small talk than a brush with the virus that has defined global life in the last two years.
I contracted Covid-19 in March last year, and for months after would tell my story: I was on an exchange semester in Britain from January to March last year, when Covid-19 rapidly developed from a distant outbreak in far-flung Wuhan, China, to a global pandemic.
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