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Collected Item: “A New Yorker's Perspective on Life During the Pandemic”

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A New Yorker's Perspective on Life During the Pandemic

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

Essay

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.

I wrote because I felt compelled to, to chronicle what was happening to try and make sense of it and help me process it.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

Journal entries, dated, 4 dates, during 2020, beyond, details, processing, overwhelmed, hope

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

self

Give this story a date.

2020
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