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Collected Item: “Chain Email of Covid Jokes”

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Chain Email of Covid Jokes

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

text from email

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

Text copied from a chain email received from my aunt in Winnipeg which is simply a list of one line jokes about covid and the pandemic.

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joke, family

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

unknown, received from Margaret Foster

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2020-04-07
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