‘I miss being able to bump into friends’ what it’s like to be young right now

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From socially distanced romances to the importance of friendship, three young people reveal how they’re adjusting to life as lockdown eases
Imagine being a teenager or early twentysomething in 2020 – it’s been a very different experience to what they were probably expecting. Thousands of university students have been forced to return to their childhood bedrooms after their first taste of freedom was well and truly curtailed. Younger teens have had school unceremoniously cancelled, and others have not been able to leave the house at all due to health concerns. But the good news is, with lockdown easing, things are finally changing.
Here three young people, with very different experiences of lockdown, describe what life feels like now they are recovering some of their much-yearned-for freedom … Continue reading...

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