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Dec
In many ways, 2021 can be seen as transitional. The year began at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, as both the nation and the world battled a new wave of infections that triggered a second round of lockdowns, leaving millions of people feeling less than optimistic about the future. As the winter months wore on, traces of hope in the form of the new vaccines broke through an otherwise pervasive feeling of gloom, so that by the time spring started in the Northern Hemisphere, normalcy, once again, began to feel attainable. This reigning sense of optimism lingered through the…