Jennifer Page jokes that four months in, this
decade is already the worst of her life.
A server at a nearby resort, she’s out of work due
to the pandemic. After someone tested positive
at her mother’s nursing home, Page moved her
into a room off the dining room. Two weeks
ago, her father died. The day after his memorial,
she and her family went for a walk, and her
5-year-old daughter, Roxa, asked for something
coveted by children for more than a century.
“She was just like, ‘Mama, when this is over,
can we go to the movies?’” recalled Page, 36, of
Buffalo. “She went through the whole process
of going to the movies. She said, ‘We can get
popcorn and each have our own drink and each
get a candy.’”
The coronavirus pandemic is forcing Americans
to journey through hardship without some