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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Caitlin Cassidy

‘They didn’t die from Covid, but because of Covid’: the inseparable couple torn apart by the pandemic

Kathleen and John Every on John's 80th birthday in April 2011
Kathleen and John Every on John’s 80th birthday in April 2011. The couple were together for over 50 years and spent their married lives ‘intertwined and very much in love’. Photograph: Supplied by Alexa Every

If living an ordinary life were possible, Kathleen and John Every’s five decades together were perfectly so – until the pandemic hit.

Of all the thousands of moments that made up her parents’s lives, it’s their final laboured breaths that their daughter Alexa Every struggles to forget.

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