I struggled to get my clothes off my hands were numb with cold and Dads were too, forget the camping bed I said stuttered with cold

I found love closer to home than I could possibly imagine and not in the way I ever thought possible, I have a very good job, my parents did everything they possibly could to help me, denying themselves holidays, using their savings to help me so failure was not an option for me and how do you repay that kind of commitment, March this year we thought mum had caught a cold but it wasn’t, it was this coronavirus, she died in hospital a couple of weeks later and me and dad were devastated along with thousands of others, then came the first lockdown which last 3 weeks I think, during that time we talked and reminisced about the good times we all had together, but dad was dead inside and tried hard not to show it, can’t blame him really he’d been with mum since he was 16 or so, I didn’t have a regular boyfriend so I was staying with him.