Finding My New Nana

Susan Van Allen
6 min readAug 20, 2020

Covid-19 Cleaning Reveals a New Family History

In the springtime of uncertainty, there was certainly time to clean out closets. Strangely, burrowing in dark corners brought comfort. Outside were so many questions: When will it end? Will my loved ones suffer and die? Will I get it?

The answer was always: I don’t know.

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Susan Van Allen

Author of “100 Places in Italy Every Woman Should Go” and lots more about Italian travel, especially for women. www.susanvanallen.com