Teens try to cope after both parents die from COVID: "We mis

Teens try to cope after both parents die from COVID: "We miss them"
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Rita Marquez-Mendoza has always been close to her two teenage grandsons, Nathan and Isaiah, but she never imagined that she'd become the closest thing they'd have to a mom or a dad. Her daughter Noehmi died of COVID-19 in July at just 39 years old. Mendoza said she had to say goodbye to her over the phone.
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"I had to tell her to go ahead and go home, that we would take care of Carlos, then we would take care of the boys," Mendoza told CBS News' Janet Shamlian.

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