A new virus has thrown the world into unprecedented chaos. My boyfriend lives overseas, and for the past year I have seen him only through a screen. I have not had sex once in all that time. I am a woman with needs too, so without the man I love to hold me, I have been left alone to satisfy myself. Then a young adult neighbor shares some food with me, and we begin talking. For one brief moment, his warm, friendly smile makes my heart race.