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Today, living with long COVID when the world has moved on.

I'm Iona Bain, financial broadcaster and author, and the new presenter of A Little Bit

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I thought a lot about hope.

I think you have to have hope.

Otherwise, what have you got?

This is Emma.

So James is an academic.

We've just had our eighth anniversary.

We met on Bumble, one of the apps.

It's a very independent, very busy person,

so he'd be working full-time, also climbing two, three times a week. Whenever he had the car,

he would go up to Dartmoor and climb. James is Emma's partner. She's talking about the old James, the pre-pandemic James, the James that used to

wake up next to her every morning. He's not at home with me. He's at his parents. We thought

it might be nice for him to have a different view from the bed instead of the pigeons on the roof

opposite. It would have been a lovely garden, unfortunately. He wasn't able to enjoy that view.

James can't enjoy the view because he has long COVID.

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