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Collected Item: “The face behind the mask”

Give your story a title.

The face behind the mask

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

A photograph that I took.

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.

We went to get ice cream for a job well done at school. My mother was driving and my sister and I were in the bed of the truck. That’s when we stopped at a stop sign and someone yelled, “Put on your mask!” We looked around to see where the voice was, but couldn’t find it. This made me realize that even though we were far enough, people still panicked, people still wanted to get assured, and people got mad. We then put on our masks, afraid that people would think that we had the virus.

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?

#NGAHS, #NexGenHighschool, #Coronavirus, #Picture, #Siblings, #Story, #Icecream, #Food, #Treatincovid, #Panic, #shouting

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

Amy Sofia Plascencia Gutierrez

Give this story a date.

2020-08-23
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