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Maplewood, New Jersey

One friend of a friend said: "Smile, when you're out on your walks. Social distancing doesn't mean you need to frown. In fact, we need to see smiles more than ever." Sometimes, the smile is reciprocated, and sometimes it isn't; sometimes, I'm met with strange coldness. But then I just think of Teri Hatcher on the set of "Desperate Housewives." Felicity Huffman was relentlessly kind to Hatcher, though Hatcher was--famously--a monster. Huffman said, "Just because she acts that way, it doesn't follow that I can't be nice!" One set of neighbors is *too* friendly. The elderly lady, carrying wine-in-a-thermos, sticks her face inside my infant's invisible "distance bubble." "That smile!" she says, breathing her fumes all over my baby. "That witty bitty face!!" I laugh uncomfortably, and later she circles back to apologize. "I just couldn't resist! I know there's this coronavirus.....