One Hundred Thousand Lives

May 29, 2020

Barbara Krupke won the lottery. Fred Walter Gray enjoyed his bacon and hash browns crispy. Orlando Moncada crawled through a hole in a fence to reach the United States. John Prine chronicled the human condition. Cornelia Ann Hunt left the world with gratitude.

Over 100,000 people have died from the coronavirus in the United States. Today, we glimpse inside the lives of just a few of them.

Background reading: 

• Memories collected from obituaries across the country help us visualize and reckon with the incalculable loss of more than 100,000 lives.

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