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building friendships DURING COVID

ON 11 March two WWOOFers arrived at our place: one from France, one from Germany. They arrived within half an hour of each other, both driving rooftop campers and had never met. They were going to stay two weeks — which was how long most of our WWOOFers stay. One week later it became clear

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