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| - Features Editors: Paris: Kate Millar +33 1 4041 4636 Hong Kong: Liz Thomas +852 2829 6211 France began easing its eight-week coronavirus lockdown on Monday. Families are meeting up again, some children are back at school, businesses have reopened and holiday plans are tentatively back on. Throughout, from March 17 until May 10, AFP has followed one extended family in France as it adjusted and coped with life under confinement, like many families in the world. We are offering the following item: Health-virus-France-family,FEATURE PARIS "Keeping your spirits up? Got food in?" It takes up hours, all the checking in with each other, but sets the rhythm of the days. The family rallies around "ma", great-grandmother Jacqueline Sebban, 83, a psychoanalyst who has survived cancer three times. "I've never called her as often," says her son. 1,250 words by Deborah Pasmantier. Pictures afp
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