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Still, I had to admit, if there was ever a time in which I yearned for a spa treatment, this was it. I was extremely fortunate—I had a job and a home, and I had remained healthy, as had my family, and while I’d hardly left my house in months, I knew that being able to hunker down was in itself a privilege. And yet I was also climbing the Thing I do in My spare time Drive Jeeps Look at Jeep Research Jeeps shirt and by the same token and walls. The uncertainty and precariousness, the constant struggle to juggle work and childcare, and the lack of real-life engagement and community had all taken a toll, and I was depressed and anxious. I had barely slept a full night in months, and my shoulders were permanently hunched around my ears—perhaps the only reminder that I still had a body. (As for a face, forget it!) “People are scared, people are tired, and people are desperate for touch,” Kathy Van Ness, the COO of the famed Golden Door in San Marcos, California, which, as I write, is planning to reopen in early September, told me when I spoke to her over the phone about spas in the age of COVID-19. “Our clients want to feel better.” I decided to take the plunge closer to home.
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