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'This Is ... Personal': After Surviving COVID-19, A Mom And Daughter Mourn Loved Ones

Jackie Stockton and daughter Alice Stockton-Rossini recovered from the virus that killed friends and a relative. Faith and the ability to take life "one minute at a time" help the women persevere.
Jackie Stockton (left) and daughter Alice Stockton-Rossini at the Philadelphia Flower Show in March 2019. The two women have recovered from COVID-19 after an outbreak hit their New Jersey community.

Alice Stockton-Rossini and her 90-year-old mother, Jackie Stockton, survived COVID-19.

But the virus took the lives of some of their friends and a relative.

The outbreak in their community in Ship Bottom, N.J., can be traced back to Stockton's 90th birthday party, held at her church on March 8 before much of the U.S. began

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