You’re a life worker, like a teacher or a doctor.” He had heard about “essential workers” in the news, I realized, and he was telling me that, from his point of view, I was an essential worker. I asked what he meant and he said, “You make food for me and you go outside with me and you take care of my life. We were jogging along a sidewalk when he said this, out for the hour of exercise that became our daily routine after the Covid-19 pandemic closed his elementary school. “You’re a life worker,” my child recently said to me.
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