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 ARIA 

Lockdown in Milan, Italy

5 months into the pandemic, right when we thought things were loosening up a bit, my vagina was doing the opposite. But that was about to change. The first party (medium gathering) I had been in months led me to reconnect with my first serious boyfriend who I was with from the age of 16 to 18. I hadn’t seen or spoken to him in 3 years since the rough breakup back in school, it almost felt like that relationship was in my past life, until it didn’t.  It was clear that the sexual tenson between us was still there and I found comfort in the familiarity, then again, I was very horny. One thing led to another and we ended up in a room on our own (classic case), and you know… Anyway, I wasn’t looking for anything serious but that’s when things unintentionally get serious, so very shortly after that we were basically back in a relationship (oops). It was intense from the get-go, he’s just that type but at the time I thought the feeling was reciprocated from myside. I guess I didn’t know what I wanted, and the issue was that unlike me, he was VERY certain. The dick was good tho, naturally major upgrade from the sex life we used to have when we were together the first time, which didn’t help with seeing things clearly either tbh. 
Once I was back to my semi normal life, being back in uni, I realised that I was stuck. Stuck in a situation where the two of us looked at the relationship from two completely different angles. I have always had this crazy rapid emotional detachment problem, I’m not sure why, and I feel terrible he was another victim of it. I hate having to give the break-up chat, but I had to. It was very uncomfortable and honestly hard to explain my mental process, going from envisioning having a family with him to wanting to go back to being strangers, especially because I didn’t fully understand it myself. I still don’t. I feel like I fucked up by letting myself get back into this with him again and breaking his heart once again. But everything happens for a reason?

Selfies in her home
> This direction works really well as the viewer gets a sense of her environment and space within lockdown, and the space that produced reactions and events that may not have occurred without a lockdown 
> Picking a few of these and working with them will be an interesting start to the designing of peoples' stories around lockdown love 
















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