As I prepare my first turkey dinner for four – socially distanced and outdoors – I’m visiting with old Friends who were there for me in my youth
Throughout the pandemic, I’ve found relief from lockdown loneliness in looping favorite television shows from the 80s and 90s in the background while I work – Cheers, Friends, Seinfeld, Law & Order and my favorite, Frasier. When quarantine started, the need to see familiar faces hit me almost immediately. No longer able to interact with friends, family, co-workers, the guy I get my roll and coffee from nearby my office, I felt pangs of loneliness I hadn’t experienced since I was a teenager without a home to call my own. I needed to watch something familiar and comfortable, so I turned to my favorite fictional friends.
But I’ve been saving all the Thanksgiving episodes for the week of the holiday.