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hi grandma
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it’s tom
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i’m sorry that we lost you
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to covet
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but i’m so very happy that you were with
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us
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to see kevin and i get married
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i’m so very thankful that we had you for
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as many years as we did and i just hope
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people are careful
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and that love wins
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i lost my mother on april 2nd of this
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year to the virus and i nearly also lost
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my brother to the virus most people
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really realize just how horrible this
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virus is until it affects you you know i
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didn’t get to say goodbye we didn’t get
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even really good to have a funeral
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the
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lgbtq community knows
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about pandemics having suffered through
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the hiv pandemic
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starting in
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1983
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and this has been a horrible time in our
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community we’ve been so isolated from
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family and friends
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and my heart
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is absolutely broken
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that the
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government
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can’t get it together so that they will
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save more lives also to just keep in
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mind that
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one person can change the world in the
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blink of an eye and so i wanted to say
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this to other people that don’t think
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this is not real this is very real as i
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worked in the new york city hospital
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during the surge and saw people dying on
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a daily basis it is something that i
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will never ever forget or
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get past i don’t think
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to all of those wonderful beautiful
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special people out there
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nurses doctors health care workers
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all the essential workers
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thank you thank you for everything that
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you’re doing to make our lives easier
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let’s all stick together stay home wear
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a mask wash your hands i lost my mother
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to covet and i use this remembrance day
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to remember her
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know that as long as we remember someone
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they will always be a fabric a piece of
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the fabric of the world you are always
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in our thoughts i’m glad that that we
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are doing this today
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to remember those who were lost
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may their
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memories be a blessing to us all
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[Music]
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you
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