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As Italy eases its restrictions, residents reflect on the ways life has changed in Europe's longest lockdown

Italy began easing its coronavirus restrictions on May 4.

The country began easing restrictions May 4, but Italians are still coming to terms with their experience in what had been Europe's longest lockdown.Valeria Grilli, a 67-year-old architect, lost her husband just a couple of months before Rome's coronavirus lockdown. At a time when many families were forced to hunker down together, she was living alone in her apartment in the city center. But she refuses to feel lonely or stop working.

"There's always been a difference between Milan and Rome," she says. "We are back to this difference." A worker in a factory of the roll-forming machine maker Gasparini in Mirano, near Venice, on April 15.Her lockdown started March 12. She says locals became "sick and tired." The mood is lifting as restrictions have eased, with a touch more coffee and the chance to see her family on the other side of town.

Five thousand people live in her suburban town, a common theme in Italy's spread of smaller, gentler living.

 

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