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Collected Item: “Italian Wife Plays Recorder. Husband Is not Pleased.”

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Italian Wife Plays Recorder. Husband Is not Pleased.

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Video from Instagram

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During the Corona outbreak, people in Italy sang in unison from their balconies. However, in this home, the husband was fed up with the noise and the awful recorder playing. So he lashed out. She yelled back at him. This shows how tensions in a marriage were greatly heightened by being forced to spend 24 hours a day with each other, seven days a week.

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ASU, HST580, Marriage, Humor, Italy, Quarantine, Recorder

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

Unknown

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2020-05-29
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