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<strong> Here’s a picture of what’s left in E’s bathroom,</strong> and it would make me cry in normal times,<strong> all the flotsam of the empty nest:</strong> a lighter from her Amsterdam adventure a couple years ago, her tampons, blue nail polish, hair pins.<strong> Now she can’t come back in here, to her childhood home, sans mask, until I am vaccinated</strong>. (J is but not me.)<strong> God, how I want us all just to be able to eat fried chicken, laugh, chase the cat, together, without masks.</strong>