Covid-19 coronavirus: UK's 'tsunami' of grief as deaths pass 100,000

Covid-19 coronavirus: UK's 'tsunami' of grief as deaths pass 100,000
26 Jan, 2021 05:20 PM
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By: Pan Pylas, Associated Press
For nine months, Gordon Bonner has been in the "hinterlands of despair and desolation" after losing his wife of 63 years to the coronavirus pandemic that has now taken the lives of more than 100,000 people in the United Kingdom.
Only recently did Bonner think he might be able to move on — after sensing the spirit of his wife, Muriel, near him on what would have been her 84th birthday.
"I suddenly understood I had to change my attitude, that memories are not shackles, they are garlands and one should wear them like garlands around your shoulders and use them to communicate between the quick and the dead," the retired Army major said in an interview from his home in the northern city of Leeds. "Grief is the price we pay for love."

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