Stories of romantic approaches in the vaccine line have been circulating on social media and in family conversations.
Julie Ingersoll said that another patient struck up a conversation with her 89-year-old mother as they waited for their shots in Brunswick, Maine.
"He wanted to know how old she was," Ingersoll recalled with a laugh. "And so she told him. He said, 'Oh, I'm 90 ... Do you have a friend?'"
Ingersoll is a religious studies professor at the University of North Florida and had a theory on why people may be bonding now where they might not have otherwise. The pandemic, she said, is a shared “out of the ordinary” experience not unlike people who are together in boot camp.
The vaccine is a game changer for those on the dating scene, and it’s already a prompt on some dating apps. Outside Fenway Park’s vaccination site on a recent day, a group of college students practiced their opening pitch.
“Do you got a vaccine? Cause you definitely got a shot with me," one student quipped.
Most young people will have to wait until April 19 to get in a vaccine line in Massachusetts — a few more weeks to practice that pitch.
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