Karen Patrick had a lovely time hanging out in New Brunswick last winter, but she’d rather have spent some of that time somewhere warmer — namely at her Florida condo.
The retired nurse last saw her condo as the grip of the global pandemic took hold and she hurriedly packed her bags amid calls from Ottawa — and her adult children — to get back across the border.
“The kids got frantic,” said Patrick, 63, recalling the stress her family felt a year and a half ago.
A winter has passed since the pandemic started and another is approaching — a long stretch that
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