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I love, like enjoying a latte on the bus with some music or on a walk with a friend. My

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charge. While stocks last, subject to availability. Clark Stale, Mississippi.

Dozens of music venues. Live music every night. You could go out every night and you're

delivered with H.U. and you go broke because it's so much, you know. A city centered around

the blues. Specifically, tourism related to the blues. Place for every year. Thousands of

people come from all over the world to listen to live music and walk in the footsteps of

muddy waters in Robert Johnson. And then in March, the pandemic hit and all of this stopped.

The clubs closed, the tourists left. This is in the dark. Coronavirus in the Delta. I'm

Madeline Baren. I've spent the past two months along with the rest of the in the dark team,

starting on coronavirus in the Mississippi Delta. The poorest part of Mississippi. And one

of the poorest places in the entire country. In this series, we're bringing you stories

of people trying to live in this really hard time. Trying to make decisions. Trying to

get by. In a situation that none of us have faced before. In this episode, a story of

just one man. A man who, in the middle of the pandemic, came to understand something.

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