With a little bit of ingenuity and some plastic, a great-grandmother in the US state of Illinois was able to safely hug her great-grandchildren for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic led to social distancing measures.
85-year-old Rose Gagnon went from seeing her great-grandchildren every day to not hugging them in more than two months. But she gathered them in her arms again for the first time this week thanks to an invention by her granddaughter.
Using some PVC pipes, a window insulator kit, and duct tape, Carly Marinaro built a "hug time" machine outside her house in Rockford, Illinois. "My heart felt like it was going to burst.