Today the daughter I adopted forty four years ago turned forty eight!
She is moving to Arizona next summer, so this is the last birthday we may spend together.
I had not been to a restaurant since early last March and we hoped to eat outside at one tonight, but the weather was too windy and cold. They closed the outside.
I almost didn't go, but I'm glad I did. We ate in a fairly private corner inside and I haven't felt so human in months.
We wore masks when the waitress was taking our orders and serving us and were as safe as I knew how to be. I probably won't go out among people like this again for many months, but it was worth it tonight.
It was strange seeing the other guests in the distance. Mostly older folks, mostly wearing masks most of the time, but obviously feeling awkward and unsure of plague etiquette.
This is the first time in my life I have lived in an extended period of time under the duress of an invisible foe who could kill me and while it feels a bit anticlimactic, it also feels terrifying.
Worse than ghosts or bogeymen hiding in closets, this thing can hover in the air, slip down your trachea and boom, it's got you!
My first truly scary Halloween coming up.
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