Donna Schuurman lives in Oregon, clear across the country from her mother in Maryland. Her mom, who is 91, resides in an assisted living facility in Baltimore that won’t allow visitors during the coronavirus pandemic. “I can’t fly out to see her, and I’m not allowed to see her,” Schuurman says.

“I’m FaceTiming with her, but just even the idea that I may never see her again—if this wasn’t happening, I could get on a plane and hold her hand and sing to her.”

A lost chance to say goodbye to an aged parent, a promising romance that fizzles when a pair can’t meet in person, a career that stalls when a prized job vanishes, a dwindling shot at parenthood when an infertility clinic suspends all in vitro fertilization treatments—these are the casualties of our lives on pause during the coronavirus pandemic.

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