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Hey, it's Jesse.

Back in March, our producer Sarah Storm and I interviewed four

listeners about how they were dealing with COVID-19. When we first recorded the

episode, we just started working from home. We still thought it was temporary

That we'd be back in the office in a week. That feels like a decade ago now

We spoke to listeners in China, Italy, North Dakota, and California.

Places where COVID was nearly over, completely raging, or not even on the radar yet.

COVID's been this remarkably universal experience.

It's impacted nearly everyone in some way, and yet it's so local. In China, Becky's life's back to normal now. In

California, man he's locking down all over again. So as the year finishes up, my colleague Michaela Greer set out to check back in with everyone.

Here's Michaela to share their stories.

Hey guys, we're going to cover a lot of ground today, literally and figuratively.

When we checked in with Kate Burston earlier this year, she was in Milan, and the Lombardi region had just been declared a redstone.

Cada is American and her husband is Italian.

We have, in terms of the pandemic, we went through an intense lockdown in Italy.

We had just started when I spoke to

Jesse and we were under a lockdown from I believe it was March until June that

was incredibly strict and we were only allowed to be outside of our

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