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Caring for her wife during the pandemic has been difficult for Cheryl Knapp, as friends and family aren’t able to visit and lend a hand as often as they once could.
The Escondido resident started dating Sue Whitfield, now 80, soon after they met at a Christmas party in 1983, while Knapp was using a leg brace and holiday-decorated crutches to recover from a mountaineering accident. Whitfield told Knapp that anyone who could make their crutches look festive must have a good sense of humor, a trait the pair mutually shared.
“She also, in jest, asked me to dance, which of course I couldn’t do, so I knew she had a sense of humor,” Knapp said.