Opinion by Jane Greenway Carr Updated 1320 GMT (2120 HKT) September 5, 2020 Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what’s happening in the world as it unfolds. (CNN)It used to be commonplace for kids to write essays entitled “How I spent my summer.” Like so much else, even imagining that ritual seems out of place in this forever altered landscape we’re still calling 2020. Americans are saying goodbye to a summer season that even as it draws to a close still seems inconceivable. They are doing it while teetering along the sharp edges of a series of grim benchmarks: nearing 200,000 deaths and over 10 million jobs lost after six months spent enduring the grinding effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. The summer of staying put We wanted to hear the stories of how you’ve gotten through it, what you’re holding onto and what these months spent largely indoors and in place have taught you, helped you appreciate or made you long for. We opened the floor to our readers, and you didn’t hold back. The hundreds of stories you shared with us were fashioned from words that arranged themselves into recurring patterns and refrains, from mundane to gut-wrenching:… Read full this story
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