Elizabeth Switzer and Paul Polak should be celebrating their first Valentine's Day as a married couple next Sunday. But instead, they're lovers in a dangerous time, separated by 60 miles of highway and an international border and a pandemic that's destroying lives and breaking hearts, including theirs.
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