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Collected Item: “"Celebrity couple William Shakespeare and Jane Austen practice social distancing during the COVID-19 crisis."”

Give your story a title.

"Celebrity couple William Shakespeare and Jane Austen practice social distancing during the COVID-19 crisis."

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

twitter account

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.

A comedy account, featuring figurines of Jane Austen and William Shakespeare wearing cut down bandaids and fabric as masks and pretending to navigate a pandemic world as the historical figures would.

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?

social media, joke, mask

Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.

https://twitter.com/PridePlague

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

unknown, @PridePlague

Give this story a date.

2020
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