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\"I don’t want to forget those things that pop into my head during this period,\" she said. \"The danger is we get back to normal life at the end of this and then you just kind of go back to what life was like before. It’d be nice to think we could actually take something positive away from this.\"

Eborall said her family's jar was at first full of \"things you take for granted\" in life, like going to the park and going to see their grandparents, but has expanded into much more.

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PHOTO: Katie Eborall, of Leeds, England, created a bucket list jar for her family during the coronavirus pandemic.
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\"It's grown into some of the big things we’d hoped to do in the next few months that we’re not going to be able to do anymore and some things that we always say we’re going to do but never get around to,\" she said. \"It’s a way of not just appreciating all of the simple things in life at the end of this, but kind of committing to doing the things we always say we’re going to do and to making the most of life.\"

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