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I Was Already Locked Down

Dear Yuri, The sky is pink tonight and the house is quiet, except for the clunking of the dishwasher, which is always on these days. My two little...

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No Time To Think!

I think a lot of good could come out of this but also fearful that we will fall back into the same bad habits when “normality” returns. I...

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My Metro Family

Dear Yuri, I hope you are safe. I have amazing friends who have formed a metro family. Before this began, I was thinking about the seismic shifts...

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The Wire

Dear Yuri, These are some things I can see from my window. These are some things I don’t understand. Some things I do. I live in Mile End, London...

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Hope In The Time of Coronavirus

Dear Yuri, NY, NY. There is the outside, the one we knew and took for granted.  Now it looks far away, like the dreams we had when we were kids. That...

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Refuge

Dear Yuri, I came into the women’s refuge just before lockdown. Its more peaceful here and I’m healing, without the usual distractions of...

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A Community With Soul

Where is everybody? We’re used to welcoming travellers to our aquamarine shores, our clear skies and our wave-lapped drinking holes. But there’s...

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Through Glass, Darkly

Dear Yuri, I wasn’t going to share this with anyone but we’re running low on air and I have to break the seal. Something is coming. It is outside so...

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The Looking Glass

Dear Yuri When I open my window during the day, I see the waves of the sea tumbling over each, as if trying to reach me. To tell me a story. I can...

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That Hug

Dear Yuri, I’m a hugger. The limp hug, the bear hug, the I never want to let you go hug. I can’t wait for that hug. I greet people...

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Watching The Neighbours

Dear Yuri, Unlike you, I’ve never been into space and looked down on the world and the millions of individuals making love, fighting and doing all...

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