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Picture this: It’s the summer of 2020, you’ve been quarantining with your family for 2 months, while you count down the days until you’re back at school in September. As an undergraduate student at Queen’s, I was lucky enough to have a summer home in Kingston, which I used as my last-minute escape from the COVID-19 madness. I packed up my bags, said goodbye to my family, and made the two-and-a-half-hour trip to Kingston.