What I remember of that haze of a year, besides her death and my return trip to Prague, was the emptiness of Charles Bridge on my daily walks. I left Sydney in mid-2020 to return to Prague as the first round of the pandemic was in full swing. It also was a defining year for me because my mother passed away shortly after her diagnosis, just as lockdowns and restrictions were happening. Then in 2020 it – COVID – happened, something that we will probably always remember as the year of ‘before’ and ‘after’. Just before we knew there was a virus waiting in the wings, in late 2019 my mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer and I went back to Sydney from Prague where I had been living.
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