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Natasha Freidus, start-up CEO
“I’m American, but my husband, Andrew, has dual citizenship. After living in France for a few years, we moved to Toronto in 2018 with our two kids we were attracted to the booming tech scene, and we refused to move back to the U.S. for several reasons, including Trump. A couple of weeks ago, as the Covid cases in Toronto kept soaring, we started to seriously consider crossing the border to get our vaccines. We were hoping to fly to Seattle this summer to visit family we haven’t seen since 2019, and we wanted to get vaccinated as soon as possible. We figured best-case scenario we would be able to get our first shot here in early May, but everything pointed toward the second shot not being available until at least July or August. We didn’t want to wait.