A year ago, I dreamed about the future. I spoke of wrapping up my life in Ottawa within months, finishing off my sleeve tattoo, going on road trips to Newfoundland and the United-States, and moving to New Zealand. We were in the lockdown then for Covid-19, but the thought it would be over soon.
I was wrong: the lockdown kept going on, New Zealand and the United-States shut their borders, as did Atlantic Canada to the other provinces, and my tattoo artist was prohibited from operating.
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