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Can we be friends? Dating apps say intimacy isn’t everything in a post-pandemic world

People crave the friendships and social groups they have been starved of over the past year - dating apps (Shutterstock)

I’ve just come out of a long-term lockdown. Can we be friends?

Amorous entanglements aren't uppermost in the minds of many people emerging from long periods of pandemic isolation. Instead, they crave the friendships and social groups they have been starved of over the past year.

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