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Collected Item: “Dig Deeper to Find Husband in Garden”

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Dig Deeper to Find Husband in Garden

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

meme

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.

During quarantine, families were forced to be together 24/7. That situation, along with the usual stresses of marriage led to jokes old and new. This meme shows that the wife buried her husband in the garden--we assume because she just. Could. Not. Take. It. Anymore.

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?

marriage, quarantine, murder, humor, homelife

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

It's based on an old joke

Give this story a date.

1987
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