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Families feel the pinch of love and death in adversity

Francis Kamanga and Caroline Pere who have been forced to suspend their April 25 wedding in Kajiado over the coronavirus pandemic.

For the first time in generations, matters of the heart are being dictated by the cold, hard world of science. Love, death and everything in between is being decided by the phrase: self-isolation.

In a world battling to save itself from the coronavirus pandemic, humanity is relearning what love really is, the loneliness that death can truly bring and the fears that every mother has of bringing a child into a world full of uncertainties.

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