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I was wandering around the edges of a luncheon that was winding down, looking for a job to do or else a stray cupcake I could swipe. We were loaded with cupcakes that day.

I’m not one of those people who look back on the past year through COVID-colored lenses. I’m a social person but a solitary man, and while I miss picnics and parties, where I can dip in and out of socialization, life now isn’t all that different.

But this was a fun event, in late January, mostly because, as I said, there were cupcakes.

And then I felt the buzzing from my pocket, and I pulled my phone out to read t...