What It’s Like Losing a Loved One Amid a Pandemic

It’s hard to describe how it feels to lose someone without seeing them.

Leigh Victoria Fisher, MS
4 min readSep 1, 2020

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The distraction of a public health crisis doesn’t make the loss any easier.

On Monday morning, I was watering my vegetable garden and listening to Michelle Obama’s Becoming. I was on the chapter where she wrote about losing her father…

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Leigh Victoria Fisher, MS

Brooklyn-based writer and poet. Designer in NYC. Drinks books and loves coffee. Has an MS from NYU in Integrated Design & Media. Working on an MFA in Fiction.