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Before the clock hits 11 a.M., activities director Tomica Mace has the bingo cards set on long tables outside, and some of the game’s regulars are arriving, all masked and spaced out from neighbors. Nine residents congregate, but Mace’s voice is the only one that rises as the players concentrate on their cards.
“Everybody ready?” Mace bellows before the first ball appears. “N-45!”
A resident at the Southern Pines nursing home takes part in the daily bingo game in Warner Robins, Ga., on Thursday, June 25, 2020. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
When Southern Pines shut outsiders out, life inside transformed too. The dining room closed, with meals delivered to rooms. Most group activities were nixed. One of the only mainstays to survive was bingo, and that morphed into a socially distanced game largely played with residents seated in their doorways, aides in the hallways parroting Mace to ensure the numbers are heard.
Today, the game came with a breath of fresh air, each suspected win followed by a check of a player’s card and crisp dollar in their palm when Mace confirms with glee, “That’s a good bingo!”
Before long, though, the sky rumbles and the drops begin to fall and the players are ushered away from the wafting aroma of towering pines, back into a spotless, sterile hallway, while “The Price Is Right” plays on TVs affixed beside nurses’ stations on each end of the home.
Bingo ends with no wins for Kay Gee, but when she gets back to her room, the midday news brings a happy update: A deal has been reached to bring a beloved sport back to her screen.
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“Baseball’s coming back!” she says. In other news: “It’s gonna rain. That’s what they say every day.”
Gee is 80, a retired office worker who wound up in a home when back surgery brought problems with her right leg a year and a half ago. She hopes to live outside a facility again, but nothing seems so sure these days. Dutch Women are Sunshine Mixed with A Little Hurricane Shirt
She misses visits from her four children and three grandchildren. She misses plunging her hand into the fur of Annie, her poodle, and Mugsy, her dachshund, when they would visit. Sometimes she feels little urge to do any more than sink into a book. Other days it all feels harsher
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