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Collected Item: “Peasant Life”

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Peasant Life

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Meme shared from private messages with a friend

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Old history books are full of random pictures and quotations of what life was like in whatever the period in question was. It seems as though the average life of a normal person during the pandemic has consisted of: avoiding coronavirus, baking bread, and most recently revolting against systemic oppression. Seems as though the cycle is repeating itself.

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#HST, #485, #ASU, #peasants, #baking, #plague

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Peter Berube shared the meme, Joey Dorion uploaded it

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2020-06-17
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