While they recovered from an “exceptionally busy period” with, it might be presumed, laughter, companionship, and their own bottles of wine, I was at my house. Like them, I, too, had a glass of wine, although I had drunk it by myself. I had then gone for a short walk where I had bumped into a friend out on his “daily permitted exercise”. We spoke a little, at a distance of more than two meters. He offered his condolences. I thanked him and returned home, alone; 20 May 2020 was the day I buried my sister.
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