Denver Couple Makes Movie and Gets Engaged During COVID-19
Denver couple J.D. Gonzales and Jessica Higgins rolled their eyes when they saw people sharing the poem “And the People Stayed Home” on social media at the start of the pandemic last year. The hopeful, positive spin on the shutdown felt unrealistic to them. “It annoyed us like the natural cynics that we were,” Gonzales says with a laugh. “People who were already struggling with things in their personal lives — mental health problems, grief, loss, abusive relationships — all those issues would be worsened by quarantine,” Higgins says. While Gonzales and Higgins hoped that the p...
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