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When this happens, we run out of T.P. in the short-term, but the shortage doesn’t last long.

“You told me you loved me, then bring me some groceries. I’m down to my last role of T.P.,” she sang as she opened her act with a raucous tune she said she’d written just the day before to sum up what weeks of self-isolation has been like.

My husband and I wondered: Who was the T.P. fairy?

On Sunday, vendors at two Los Angeles-area swap meets said they were clean out of T.P., the maddening symbol of coronavirus panic shopping.

The California lawsuit described a 13-year-old boy from Norwalk as T.P. who loves Disneyland and has been diagnosed with autism, severe obsessive compulsive disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and having anxiety attacks.