It was a hug like no other that Carolyn Ellis had experienced.

Last May, during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ellis and her husband, Andrew, created a device out of a clear plastic sheet and garbage bags in Guelph, Ont. that would allow her to hug her mother on Mother’s Day.

“As soon as I was embraced by her, like we were hugging her, obviously it’s mutually beneficial. I felt so emotional hugging her. And I didn’t realize, I guess,

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