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Good riddance to a lot of what I thought was normal life

Our nostalgic urges are understandable but often misplaced

I went back to the office for the first time in seven months the other day, expecting to find the place largely unchanged.

A colleague who had just done the same thing said he had found his desk still covered in newspapers from the days before the building emptied in mid-March, plus a withered Pret sandwich from the same era. “It’s like Pompeii,” he told me.