MindShift: Young People Struggle To Keep Friends Close As Pandemic Pulls Them Apart
“Here we are at this young age wanting to start things, wanting to go out into the world and try everything and be young and travel and see each other," Andreatta (23) says. "But we are stuck in our apartments."
Hadia Bakkar talks with young adults and mentions our loneliness report on NPR's MindShift.
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