A month after filing for divorce, single mom Leslie Jamison contracted COVID-19. She wrote this meditation on single parenthood, loneliness, longing, and frustration while sheltering in place — and sweating out the virus — with her 2-year-old daughter.
Since I Became Symptomatic
Leslie Jamison | New York Review of Books | March 26, 2020 | 1,500 words
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