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Rough Translation

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Rough Translation

NPR

Society & Culture, Social Sciences, News, News Commentary, Science

4.87.6K Ratings

🗓️ 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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