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This episode contains strong language. \n\nHilma Wolitzer lost her husband, Morty Wolitzer, a psychologist who loved cooking and jazz, on April 11, 2020. They had been together for 68 years.\n\nMary-Margaret Waterbury\u2019s uncle Michael Mantlo had introduced her to Nirvana, grunge and Elvis Costello.\n\nAfter Terrie Martin\u2019s first born, April Marie Dawson, died at age 43, Ms. Martin said she carried around guilt for not taking more precautions. \u201cI killed my daughter,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I have learned nothing from loss.\u201d\n\nCarmen Nitsche\u2019s mother, Carmen Dolores Nitsche, died on May 14, 2020. They were only a few miles apart, but she said she was unable to hold her mother\u2019s hand on her final journey.\n\nIn the coming days, the number of known deaths from Covid-19 in the United States is expected to reach one million.\n\nWe asked listeners to share memories about loved ones they have lost \u2014 and about what it\u2019s like to grieve when it seems like the rest of the world is trying to move on.\n\n\u201cTime keeps moving forward, and the world desperately wants to move past this pandemic,\u201d one told us. \u201cBut my mother \u2014 she\u2019s still gone.\u201d