When moving to a new city during a global pandemic left Lindsay MacMillan feeling extremely lonely, she decided to advertise for friends with a cardboard sign and her phone number.

Writer Lindsay MacMillan's extreme quest to make new friends

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My first weeks in the UK were very lonely. I was in quarantine, subsisting on Deliveroo and imaginary conversations

Not ready to give up on my experiment, my sign and I kept travelling around London in pursuit of new connections

One woman’s radical quest for connection.

“Desperate for friends, I held up a cardboard sign with my phone number on it”