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  • 'A moving moment.' Grandma prescribed a post-vaccine hug

    VANESSA A. ALVAREZ|Mar 18, 2021

    NEW YORK (AP) — For Laura Shaw Frank, seeing her mother hug her daughter for the first time since the onset of the pandemic was a light at the end of the tunnel. "It just felt like all this love was pouring out and also that there was like this feeling of hope, like maybe there's a future, maybe we're going to get out of this," Frank said Tuesday about her mother and daughter embracing for the first time after becoming vaccinated. Evelyn Shaw, who lives about a mile from Frank's home in the Bronx and lives alone, spent a lot of time with her f...