My conversations with God are as if I'm talking to a best friend because God is my best friend.

And so my conversations with him are very like what are you doing?

You know, I don't get it.

I don't get you.

What are you doing?

This is Death, Sex, and Money.

The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot, then need to talk about more.

I'm Anna Seo.

As we were hitting this one-year mark of the pandemic, I wanted to talk to Donna Perry

because I had been thinking about her all year.

This is Yasmin Khan, producer at Death, Sex, and Money, who a year ago was reporting on

COVID in New York City and the WNYC Newsroom.

I first spoke with Donna almost exactly a year ago.

This was a time when I was reporting from home, calling around to different neighborhood

groups, you know, to try to get a sense of how people were doing on the ground.

I got Donna's number through an organization called East Brooklyn Congregations.

It's this coalition of mostly black activist churches.

And they told me about one of their churches, Brown Memorial Baptist Church, that was experiencing

a wave of infections.

And they asked if I would like to speak with a woman named Donna Perry, who I just recovered

from COVID.

So you get this name and this phone number of a woman named Donna.

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