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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.

<strong>I escaped this week and it felt great.</strong> This picture is only about 30 minutes of relaxation while watching children, but still, to be out of the house, in nature, with family, it was amazing! <strong>I broke all the rules</strong> - hugs, snuggles with a baby who is passed from person to person and slobbers over everyone, going into houses, eating together, etc. <strong>Frankly, I don't care. Right now at least.</strong> I hope and pray that I am able to stay healthy and that all of my family is too. <strong>It was risky but necessary - my mother had emergency surgery and I needed to be there.</strong> Thank God, she is healing and fine. And I would do it again to be there for her. <strong>I had missed her so much.</strong> Going there felt great, and coming home again felt much better. I don't feel as trapped, as desperate. And when I do start to go stir crazy again, now I have this beautiful picture to remind me that there is still nature and family not too far away.