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Chris

Chris: “The biggest challenge for me doing this work has been overcoming people’s understandable apprehension of people showing up at their door. Some are afraid of the government.

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Anna

Anna: “Living alone during a pandemic and a quarantine can be an up and down rollercoaster of self-care and self-destruction. I think I have fared well so far,

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Lionel

Lionel: “The beginning of the ‘stay at home’ period was a good time to re-read La Peste (The Plague) by my countryman Albert Camus. Written over 70 years

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An older man dressed in a yellow, red, and black camo-patterned shirt and a red billed cap sits cross-ledded in a garden between two orange traffic cones.

Bob

“What has it been living by myself during the pandemic? I turned to art. I decided to do portraits of people I love and miss. I just stood

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A bald middle-aged man sits in a merogold aphostlered chair wearing a tee shirt and thin glasses, holding a potted plant and green glassware.

Bo

“As a theatre teacher and artist, I produce six shows in a typical year: three at Sayre School (where I teach theatre to grades 7-12) and three with

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Prashanth

Prashanth: “Living by myself in the rectory during COVID hasn’t been a big difference. But saying Mass and doing adoration by myself—that was different. For a while, people

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Javier

Javier: “It’s been a bit depressing at times. I consider myself strong. I read a lot of Nietzsche. I used to go to the gym every day. When

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Sandy

Sandy: “I am lucky because I work in a place that’s an essential service. Our office is locked and there is a glass in the foyer. We cut

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Patrick

Patrick: “I don’t see how the pandemic has affected my living alone. I still work. I still shop for food. But I have a health issue. Having to

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Carmen

Carmen: “Living alone during COVID-19 has turned out to be really renewing. I used to never be at home and it was hard at first. I cried. But

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Andres

Andrés: “Living on my own during the pandemia: What certainly has been a hard time, this period has actually been a time of personal rebuilding, healing and growing.

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A young man in sunglasses is seated on a front porch in a colorful tee shirt and high yellow socks.

Clay

Clay: “I have been expecting a phone call from my hometown since quarantine began. Even if the pandemic wasn’t surging through the United States and elsewhere, I’d be

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A woman with long wavy hair in distressed jeans and white high tops is seated on a brick stoop.

Jeane Anne

Jean Anne: “I am from Ashland, Kentucky. It borders West Virginia. I heard about a lady in Huntington that found a dead body of someone who overdosed, not

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A woman is seated on a concrete garden bench beside a porch wearing a bun and a dusty pink woven sweater.

Stephanie

Stephanie: “Mia wasn’t the first person I knew who died from drug-related complications. But she was the major one that impacted my life. She died from heroin. She

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A woman with neat, blonde and pink bangs is seated on a concrete apartment entryway beside a young man with neatly combed hair and Van Dyke style facial hair.

Hannah and David

Hannah: “When I first took a Percocet, I was mostly ignorant about the opioid crisis. As a teenager, I had done my fair share of experimentation and never

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A man and woman stand closely together wearing University of Kentucky athletic wear next to a grave decorated with flowers.

Adrian and Callie

Callie: “My older son Averi struggled with depression because of a bone disease. He hurt a lot. On the day he passed away, he had been doing so

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Sarah

Sarah Williams, BSN, MA, Community Activist, Civic Change Agent, one of the leaders of the Black Lives Matter protests in Lexington, Co-Founder of Peoples Blueprint and Cooperation Lexington.

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A young woman with purple hair and glasses sits on a brick front-porch railing in a striped shirt.

Brandy

“Hi, friends. My name is Brandy. I am an artist/educator, self proclaimed do-gooder, lover of people, communities, and stories. I am a daughter, sister, and friend. I consistently

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