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Couples had to shelter in place and we tried to guess who would still be together when it was over. One couple in particular looked ready to fight just going in. Their kids played soccer in a narrow courtyard. I had the feeling one of them was about to get kicked in the face –but the game went on, back and forth –until it started raining hard. It was raining again when the code red lifted, though the sun was out by the time we were ready to leave. I got my father to spring for the bus tickets. We still had an hour, enough time to go for a run. I thought I’d call a woman I’d gone out with for a few weeks decades ago, when we lived on the same street, but she barely remembered me. “I thought you died,” she said. “Don’ take it so hard. You were only dead a little while.”