To go, or not to go, that was the question.
Whether it was nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous misfortune of Covid-19 and miss Christmas with my four children and five grandchildren-- a trip that had been planned for two years--or to take arms against the virus by ignoring the recommendations of science and oppose it by going back to Michigan and be with my family
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