Washington-based accountant Manny Cosme and his husband, Christopher Reyes, have been separated since the COVID-19 pandemic kicked into high gear.
Reyes, an Army reservist in the medical unit, has been deployed to New York to work as a nurse on the front lines. He even took their dog, Mila, a trained therapy dog. “It’s never easy and never something you get used to,” Cosme says. “My entire family has been gone.” But he’s been keeping busy.