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Rough Translation

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🗓️ 2 April 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

She felt the urgency before her husband did. A story about the time lag between the arrival of the coronavirus in two different nations, and how that played out in a marriage

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0:00.0	You're listening to Rough Translation from NPR.
0:03.8	Slash my closet.
0:05.9	I am working from home as you might be as well.
0:08.9	And in our last episode we asked you to tell us,
0:11.7	how is the coronavirus affecting your family relationships?
0:16.0	Hello.
0:17.1	Hey.
0:18.1	We heard from a listener in Connecticut.
0:19.9	Good morning.
0:20.9	This is Lying.
0:21.9	Lying was born in Wuhan, China.
0:23.9	She's been living in the US since college.
0:26.3	And she told us about this one Saturday afternoon
0:29.1	in the forever ago that was early February.
0:31.6	She was out with her husband, Federico.
0:34.0	They'd left the kids with her parents,
0:35.4	and they were out taking a stroll.
0:37.0	It was a fairly cold day.
0:39.0	And they were approached by some college students,
0:41.1	raising money for the Australian wildfires.
0:43.5	That, if you remember, was a big news story at the time.
0:45.9	And then my husband stopped me.
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