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   ...that is what my daughter has lost.  (Pic from September 2019) More than me, my husband, my kids - most of society really, and it continues. We are now in stage 3 of this pandemic. That means, if you are not living in a congregate care setting like my daughter Maia, you are allowed to resume - with precautions - any number of things. Go to the movies, buy ice cream at the corner store, sit in a restaurant, or get your nails done. Maia has been locked away from the world, like everyone else living in congregate care settings such as long-term care or group homes, since March. As a mom, this has been incredibly devastating for me. The guilt that I felt when I chose to place Maia in a group home setting at age nineteen has been magnified 1000 times because of the policies which continue to exclude families like ours, around the province. We are in stage three of the pandemic, in a northern region where our cases have been non-existent for most of this month.  The staff of gr