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Collected Item: “A Seven-Year-Old Reacts to Coronavirus in a Drawing”

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A Seven-Year-Old Reacts to Coronavirus in a Drawing

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

Drawing

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 asked my friend, Jennifer Aspen, to send me something for this archive. She sent this drawing that her little girl did. She explained how her daughter captured their situation well: The girl is wearing a face mask, is crying, and surrounded by the virus.

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children, drawing, art, sevenyearold, sad, face mask

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

Jennifer Aspen

Give this story a date.

2020-06-21
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