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Pandemic border restrictions have severed ties and left families stranded between the two communities.
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There s now a much easier way to get to St-Pierre-Miquelon, but ongoing border restrictions mean nobody s allowed in or out.(Jeremy Eaton/CBC)
Rita Thornhill watches the ferry pull into Fortune s wharf for the first time in months, the boat filled with passengers who, restricted by federal law, can t set foot on Newfoundland shore.
Her fiancé and partner of 10 years isn t on it, though, and hasn t been for over a year.
Coronavirus, still a novelty when the two last shared a hug, hadn t yet closed the crossing between Newfoundland and St-Pierre-Miquelon, a territory of France whose primary link to the greater world hospitals, medical specialists, an international airport lies just across the Atlantic and beyond an international border.