BARTLETT — Do you know everything you’ve done for the past 250 days during the COVID-19 pandemic? The Gilmore family does.
Cassie and Ray Gilmore of Intervale and their five children — Ella, 12; Evelyn, 10; RayRay, 9; Zelda, 4; and Isadora (Izzy), 2 — have shared life amid the coronavirus with their 1,700 friends on Facebook through a daily journal, highlighting the events of the day with photographs and often a video.
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