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VIRUS DIARY: The kids, at a distance, caring for `Madad'

by AP Political Writer
| April 21, 2020 9:27 AM

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — We call them “Madad,” my siblings and I: So inseparable, not to say indistinct, have my parents become during 66 years of marriage. When they call it's a twofer, dueling voices on separate extensions cheerfully greeting the new arrival on the line.

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