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Though Reinhard has found a connection with her dad, grieving through a global pandemic has not been easy, she admitted.

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PHOTO: Donald Adair holds one of his five grandchildren in this undated family photo.
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And Reinhard appears to be not alone in that feeling. On Facebook, where she wrote her journey, a number of support groups have been started in the past year for the loved ones of victims of COVID-19.

\"When people weren't wearing a mask, I couldn't help feeling that they weren't honoring my dad and the millions of other people who have died,\" said Reinhard. \"Now I am fully vaccinated but I'm still wearing a mask indoors with fully vaccinated people because I'm still unwinding from this tight ball I've been in for over a year of fear and trauma.\"

\"The pandemic forced us all to change our patterns and now as we're moving out of the pandemic we have to find new patterns and shed some of the pandemic habits, and that's a process,\" she said.

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