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Has the pandemic disrupted your plans for the future in any major way? If so, talk about the most significant disruption(s).

Pre-pandemic, I visited my son and daughter-in-law twice a year, five hours by air and another 45 minutes or so by taxi from my home to theirs. I don’t know when I will feel it’s safe for me to spend that much time in close proximity to potentially infectious strangers. Pre-pandemic, my partner and I went to multi-day music festivals, indoor live music performances, and participated in social dance evenings and weekends. I sang with a local Latin Jazz Ensemble, and with a women’s choral group. I can’t see myself doing any of those things until the pandemic has abated. As disruptions go, compared to the upheavals so many others have experienced, these are small. I haven’t lost family members, or health, or income, or housing because of the pandemic. But yes, my life is quite different than it would be if there were no pandemic, and I miss the social and cultural richness that I enjoyed pre-pandemic