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No one has been untouched.
Not the Michigan woman who awakened one morning, her wife dead by her side. Not the domestic worker in Mozambique, her livelihood threatened by the virus. Not the North Carolina mother who struggled to keep her business and her family going amid rising anti-Asian ugliness. Not the sixth-grader, exiled from the classroom in the blink of an eye.
It happened a year ago. I expected to go back after that week, said Darelyn Maldonado, now 12. I didn’t think that it would take years.
On March 11, 2020, when the World Health Organization declared a pandemic, few could foresee the long road ahead or the many ways in which they would suffer the deaths and agonies of millions, the ruined economies, the disrupted lives and near-universal loneliness and isolation.
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