Tagata Tutu Faatasi a Amerika Samoa
Provo, UTAH — Lorimay Fuimaono-Ki will not always have complicated feelings about Jan. 7.
But in 2021, it was a day of intense gratitude and searing pain.
The young mother cannot stop the tears as she tries to explain what life has been like since American Samoa closed its borders to keep COVID-19...

![Lorimay Fuimaono-Ki poses for a portrait outside of a relative’s home with her twins, Lyrica-Teuila, left, and Lima, right, in Provo on Friday Jan. 8, 2021. [photo: Deseret News] Lorimay Fuimaono-Ki with her twins](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/lorimay_fuimaono-ki.jpg?itok=wkIAHK97)