NYT Magazine

"They drove through the night, stopping once for food, and arrived in Utica a little after dawn. Through the windows of the car, the campus looked beautiful, verdant and crisp, with mountains in the background and fog rising off the lake. Raj Bala, who had left the city only a few times in her life, had never seen anything like it...then walked in her mask back to the dorm and swiped her new key card. The door buzzed open, and she was home."

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