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VIRUS DIARY: As time ran short, a son rushed to say goodbye

| September 22, 2020 5:27 AM

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — No man is an island, the poem says. But amid pandemic quarantine, when my dad started having episodes of feeling faint, he seemed so isolated.

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