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From NPR music, this is Alt Latino. I'm Felix Contreras. This has been a tough year. A year of living with so much uncertainty, many of us filled with anxiety and concern about the safety and health of our families and ourselves. And unfortunately, a year of loss for far too many of us.

And after an entire year of this, many of us are taking stock this week of the year that was in our own lives and the world around us.

So this week, Alt Latino also reflects on the year that was, and we're going to do it through voices of folks who have told their

stories so eloquently in other places. Every Friday morning, NPR's morning edition runs the very

popular feature StoryCorps. They have been collecting stories from the pandemic and we'll hear some of

those. We'll also hear some oral histories of the pandemic from Texas, collected by the

Vosis Oral History Center run out of the University of Texas at Austin. But first up, NPR has been

producing an ongoing feature called Songs of Remembrance in which people who have lost loved

ones to the virus remember them through song.

Here is NPR All Things Considered host Mary Louise Kelly, introducing us to the series and our first story.

This week, we're remembering some of the more than 500,000 people in the U.S. who have

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