Losing a Life Partner During a Pandemic and What I Learned About Grief

Monica Hickson
11 min readOct 7, 2020
Two people embraced with the woman hugging the man in a striped shirt.

About 7 months ago, a pandemic swept the nation without any (well this is debatable) warning, I never understood what a pandemic was and often thought it was something that was found in history books or low budget, sci-fi movies. That was something that was a thing of the past and occurred every 300 years, or so I thought. When the news started reporting that a pandemic…

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Monica Hickson

Author of The COVID Diaries, Freelance Writer. If you enjoy reading my stories consider a Medium membership for just $5 a month. I’ll earn a small commission.