All cpaciolla wanted was to be home. She got her wish, and then a pandemic arrived. See how it played out in the latest AP Virus Diary.
In this June 11, 2020, photo, Associated Press journalist Christina Paciolla displays affirmations all around her desk during the pandemic in Palmyra, N.J. During a particularly bad stretch of fear and anxiety, her husband wrote a special one she put front and center.
I cried a lot. I gained 10 pounds. I even started to get dry, itchy patches on the bridge of my nose and eyelids that I blamed on the air quality in Newark, the train exhaust on the PATH platform, the stinky, hot steam pouring out of sewer grates in lower Manhattan. They made me feel at home. But I wasn’t home. Most nights, I’d stay at work later so I didn’t get back to their house during their family time.
I have been home since December, but I have really been home since March 15. So has my husband. We decided his job at a grocery store, although essential, wasn’t essential for us. So he took time off.
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