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By Andrew Kelly and Clare Baldwin
NEW YORK (Reuters) – It could be any one of us. In this case it was Jose Holguin. He was 50.
When he died on April 28, his death was just a speck in a giant storm of numbers defining the global COVID-19 pandemic. To the world, he was just another number added to the tally recited daily by governments and news organizations.
To his family, he was the teenager who struck out for the United States from the Dominican Republic to make their lives better. He worked at a grocery store, at a barber shop, and as a handyman. He used the money he earned to rebuild his mother’s home, and his children went to visit her nearly every summer.
As the United States opens up, Jose’s family agreed to be photographed and interviewed because they thought…
