i mean, you mention in violeta the fact that violeta, when she has a baby, that she can't have a weturse come to be... she can't be fed by a wet nurse, rather, violeta, when she's born, because people won't let her in because of the pandemic. and she's got a goat tethered in the garden and she's fed, you know, from the milk of that goat. so you've got parallels there about the sense of isolation and keeping people out that, you know, we've experienced in covid. they were very similar because they were both respiratory illnesses and they were fatal, very contagious, and the only precautions that people could take were masks and isolation, social distancing. and the vaccines came much later. so there are analogies, of course. right. and, i mean, obviously, the number of people killed — the spanish flu, 18 million. covid, about six million. so this theme of loss and grief and pain is something that you're often drawn to in your writings. you know, if you're thinking about a book like a long petal of the sea and in the midst of winter, these themes of exile and loss keep on recurring. wh