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

It's less than a week before Christmas. Usually, I would be preparing food, last minute gifts, baking cookies (at least six different kinds.) I am doing none of that. We ordinarily host my large extended family. This year we will be two. My grown children live 15 miles away. I won't be seeing them, except on a computer screen. While this makes me sad, I do it in hopes that next year we will gather with the renewed realization that family and friends are what matters most. I worry that unlike the first quarantine in March, here in New England we are facing three long months of darkness and cold. I fear that level of depression.