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Dating at the time of social distancing due to thecoronavirus pandemic comes with a layer of additional challenges. Not only is it difficult to meet someone (but not impossible, as shown in thisFirst date of history that went viral on Instagram), but new couples who were just starting to get to know each other before the pre-virus are now forced to try to continue their distance relationships.

It's really an unusual situation at a time when dates are often easy to find dating applications. But a young couple in Brooklyn, New York, does not let the strange circumstances start. In fact, they have been creative in order to stay closely and spend quality time together in person, while still keeping the six feet recommended from distance at any time.

How? 'Or' What? By having social isolated dates on the sidewalk.

When the meeting changes at night

When quarantine started, A and L have seen each other for a few months. But when NYC was actually locked at night, they were every two quarantine separately in their own home. They dropped every day by texts and video calls, but the dynamics were undeniably different.

"It was difficult," said A. "Going to hang out a few times a week to be suddenly limited to virtual communication was not something for which one nor the other was prepared, nor did not want get used to it. "

After a few weeks, they have developed a way to see each other, strictly adhered to the rules and regulation of social distancing. It started with I driving and abandoned the soup he had done, or picking up Challah's bread who had done. "We always keep a distance of six feet and we would wash food containers before consumption."

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Of course, these fleeting and short food transactions have proved insufficient. L and was essentially shouting at the other with a distance for a few minutes, which did not really experience the dates, they were missed. "We wanted to hang out longer, but always respected the rules of social distance."

I am offered an idea of ​​surprising an unusual dinner that she did not expect. Nothing like a new relationship to inspire ingenuity! "I have come to watch a six-foot folding table when I was on the phone with a," remembers L. "The date is pretty much one after that."

A genius, an idea of ​​six feet apart

On an evening otherwise inaccessible, I called A. "He just asked if I wanted to go out for dinner," she says.

One knew he was considering something, but did not know exactly what. He told her to make a dish, any dish, for dinner and have ready to leave. Thinking they may have a virtual dinner on video chat (as they had done several times before), she quickly decided to grill vegetables with Hungarian spices.

Little knows, I had loaded his folding table with six feet in his van, as well as flowers, candles, a bottle of wine and a homemade food, then headed for his house for a surprise of romantic quarantine.

"A few hours later, I look at my window and I see a dinner table created in front of my building," said A.

Romance on a street of the city

When she came out, I was sitting at a dinner table he had created on the empty sidewalk, with candles, flowers and everything, with a soft music coming from the speakers attached to his iPhone. He had also brought BOK CHOY AND BEEF UDON.

As they were sitting at the opposite end of the table, they used gloves to do without food from afar. "We were so happy to see each other, even from a distance. We talked about how the new self-distancing measures change from the world of dating - everything should be older, planned thoughtfully, with real efforts and Creativity Wooiing someone when physical proximity was not possible, "says.

Not only were they delighted to be together yet, but they also brought about comics and photos to those who attended the date of their sidewalk. "It started in the day after Bill Withers' success, and we had it on our speakers all night. Many passers-by commented on the hilarity and romance of dinner, and the tribute to the bill. They walk At the promenade. They enter photos. The cars have crossed the past, then are saved just to take a picture, "said.

Finally, even his neighbors joined their conversation of their stops.

The night ends with roasted marshmallows on the candle fire, and a retirement saxophone to play some melodies for L. We are excited about the fact that all this seemed a kind of cheese, in a good way, "says- she. "I convinced myself to play some songs on my saxo, which I had not played for four years, to really hit the general humor of the situation."

From that moment, these six-feet sidewalk dinners became a quarantine ritual for the new couple. "We have been doing more and more since, and we are looking forward to spending the day when we can spend time together without the six-foot table barrier between us."

Who said that romance died? We wish A and more of great romantic gestures in the future - with or without pandemic.

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