IN SHUTDOWN, A GLIMPSE OF LIFE WITHOUT MOVIE THEATERS
Apr 17, 2020
4 minutes
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.
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