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They say “good fences make good neighbours.” The great philosopher Homer Simpson said, “you don’t win friends with salad.” But our little social experiment that began the summer of 2020 during the initial COVID-19 lockdown, proves both of these statements false.

In the early weeks of the pandemic, my husband, a carpenter for the film industry in Toronto, was off work like so many others. After the initial “just two weeks” dragged into months, it