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MARYANN SILVA HAS worked for 19 years as a full-time banquet server at the Ritz-Carlton hotel on Boston Common. The 63-year-old Lynn resident sets up and serves food to guests for weddings, meetings, birthday parties, and corporate events. She was “temporarily” laid off in March when COVID-19 hit and the hotel closed. But the property still hasn’t reopened.(...)