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25 Jan, 7 tweets, 2 min read
I’m feeling despairing and awful. ⁦@POTUS⁩ just renewed Trump’s travel ban. Anne and I have been separated by the closed borders since March - I was due to travel to Kansas City the day after the ban was put in. It’s so difficult not being able to see someone you love. We Image
Have - like many unmarried couples in our position - tried to lobby the Us government for an exemption for long-term partners. Travel can be safe, if quarantines and testing are put in place. But the US has instead gone for absolute bans. Many other countries have invented .
“Sweetheart exemptions” for people like us. The US continues to refuse. People in our position have had little representation - our stories are ignored. I just miss Anne so much. I want to get stories like ours out - and so if anyone will commission writing about our situation,
Or wants to write a story about this, I can both write and speak and put you in touch with others separated like us. All of this is taking a toll on my mental health. It is not so good to be so despairing the whole time - not knowing when we will see each other again.
If people want to help, then please lobby your politicians to try to get these exemptions put in place. We are simple people - and we are not asking for very much. All we want is to be together.
Guess I should of thought to about this when I spent a year recommending everyone read Anna Seghers' Transit.
Which, incidentally, I still recommend (even though Anne was telling me that Victor Serge thought she was some kind of terrible turncoat.)

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