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Audra's avatar

This post. 😩💕 Needing to be away from family and friends during isolation made me realize just how much I need them.

During the pandemic, a fellow mom who's daughter went to preschool with mine, reached out. We compared our pandemic prevention strategies and precautions and were on the same page. Friday's were our days: we would transparently describe our week to make sure we were comfortable then she'd come to our house with her daughter. Our girls would play while we drank our coffee and had much needed time to just be together as friends. She is the friend of a lifetime. Chosen family at this point. And our girls have a similar friendship. I tell her all the time that her reaching out saved me.

Connection is so important.❤️

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Tara Connor's avatar

I have a dear friend who, one year ago, was seeing her mother to end of her life. She had been caring for both her parents for several years, much of the time in another country. Both our moms have/had dementia and our email correspondence about all of it was epic and so important to both of us. She brought her mom back here for what ended up being the last few months of her life. And then her mom died. It was sad and hard and the very best thing that could have happened to both of them. Almost immediately we started seeing each other again in person. She is close to my husband, too and the three of us have spent more time together in the last year than we did for the 10 years preceding it. She and I will meet for lunch at noon and close the place down at 4:00, and then stand in the parking lot talking for another hour. I had no idea much I missed her actual physical presence in my life. My mother is still in the process of dying from Alzheimer's and my friend's support is such a gift. Reconnecting in person with this one friend has changed the color of my life. It is such a comfort to have her back.

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