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family editor . I interview friends about their friendships for The Friendship Files.

Washington D.C.
theatlantic.com/julie-beck/
Joined December 2009
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    16 Feb 2019

    introducing The Friendship Files, my new weekly series of interviews with friends about their friendships. I hope they give you as much joy to read as they gave me to make! + nominate your friendship, or someone else’s at friendshipfiles@theatlantic.com

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  2. 7 hours ago

    "the cancellation of school, and the loss of the eight-ish hours of child care it provides, makes parenting an all-day, every-day job, on top of a parent’s daily routine.” asked experts for activities to keep kids busy & learning at home

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    7 hours ago

    : "The college closures are a reminder of who exactly will end up worse off when the dust from [the] pandemic finally settles." Students at elite schools will, for the most part, "be just fine. It’s everyone else we have to worry about."

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  4. 8 hours ago

    . updated her excellent guide to social distancing to reflect some of the latest developments (& added a question that was on our minds about taking walks with friends)

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  5. Retweeted
    Mar 15

    wrote some Love Is The Opposite Hygiene stuff about coronavirus and the people we’re closest, literally and figuratively, with, now that many of us are stuck indoors with each other for a minute

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  6. Mar 14

    some practical advice from on how to make being stuck at home less stifling. a key one is “fight monotony”—whatever you can do to change up your environment, seems small, but helps me a lot

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  7. Mar 13

    "At first, I was indiscriminately adding other Paul O’Sullivans on Facebook. Then I realized, 'Hey, wait a minute, we’re all musicians,' so the next step was to form this supergroup of Paul O’Sullivans.” Meet The Paul O’Sullivan Band:

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  8. Retweeted
    Mar 13

    people, this is NO TIME to experiment with new LaCroix flavors!!!!!!!

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  9. Mar 13

    if you need something cute & delightful right now, here are 4 guys named Paul O’Sullivan who started a band called The Paul O’Sullivan Band. Their one & only single (so far) is called “Namesake” and it frankly slaps

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  10. Mar 12

    can you go to the gym? can you have like three friends over for a board game night? can you even take a walk outside? asked public health experts our pressing questions about how to do “social distancing” so you can make informed decisions

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  11. Mar 11

    my colleagues are doing really helpful and important work on coronavirus — you can see all their coverage here: and we’ve removed the paywall from our most essential coverage—that can be found here:

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  12. Mar 10

    "The rules of politeness get inverted during an epidemic: Gestures involving touch, usually understood to convey affection or warmth, get replaced by distance.” capturing a particular weirdness of right now

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    Mar 10

    RIP my marriage!! For I wrote about the first time my husband and I voted differently, and how hard that felt. 💔

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  14. Mar 9

    my one coronavirus health hack so far is wearing bright lipstick to keep myself from touching my mouth

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  15. Mar 9

    .’s photo galleries are often pools of gentleness and rest in a churning sea of anxious news—looking at this gallery of photos from my home state (part of his 50 state project) this morning gave me some deeply vital relief

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  16. Mar 8

    a helpful, practical guide to what is likely to happen if the coronavirus closes schools. and walk through what to expect if schools close for days, weeks, months, or even a year:

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  17. Mar 5

    megan! garber! y’all!

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  18. Mar 5

    “The last shall be first, and the first shall be last” — Jesus, and also me answering my email

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  19. Mar 4

    the coronavirus outbreak puts many older adults in a terrible bind—those who need the round-the-clock care of a nursing home to manage existing conditions are at greater risk of being infected by virtue of living there, writes

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  20. Retweeted
    Mar 2

    For this piece, I asked more than a dozen academic experts why money is often a taboo subject, and what financial taboos look like in countries and cultures outside of the U.S. My latest in :

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  21. Feb 25

    two of America’s smartest minds on dating and why it sucks, and , have joined forces to bring you a scathing indictment of the idea of a dating “market”

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