Helping a parent fight loneliness
Four weeks into lockdown, when Katrina Kittle was on her daily phone call with her 78-year-old dad, she jokingly asked him: "Are you bored yet?" His answer broke her heart. "I'm lonely," he answered. Truman Kittle had lost his wife of 57 years in January and had moved to an independent-living apartment in Dayton, Ohio, a few weeks before the coronavirus outbreak. Shortly after his move, his community had gone into lockdown.
The day after that phone call, his daughter reached out to her friends and followers on Facebook. She asked them to send mail to her dad to boost his spirits. Within days, both close friends and people she barely knew responded with books, poems, lists of jokes, and funny cards. He has loved receiving these little tokens of kindness, and when he doesn't know the sender, he reaches out to his daughter to ask about the person. "Someday," she says, "I'll get to sit beside him and go through the pile together."
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21 Moving Photos of Kindness in the Time of Coronavirus, Source:https://www.rd.com/culture/moving-photos-of-kindness-in-the-time-of-coronavirus/
