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asakiyume ([personal profile] asakiyume) wrote2020-04-06 06:37 pm

poignant

I'm putting this behind a cut because people have different bandwith for stuff. This is not a tragic story, but it's --well, like the subject line says. Poignant.


Of course it is on lockdown right now, no one can visit anyone there, for the protection of the residents' health. Today I went for a walk in the environs of that facility, and there was a couple, about my age, probably, and probably husband and wife (but possibly siblings), pressed up against the exterior of a window on the ground floor. They were talking to someone on the inside. I walked about a mile and a half; they were there at the start of the walk and there at the end. We do what we can to support one another.

It was a very salient image of our times.
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[personal profile] amaebi 2020-04-07 12:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Poignant on the good side. Think of all the windows no one is pressing up to.
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[personal profile] amaebi 2020-04-07 12:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, I thought of second-floor windows as I finished my comment, but not of a still-taller building. But it was really the accessible ones I had in mind....