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Collected Item: “The Balcony: My Families Sanctuary”

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The Balcony: My Families Sanctuary

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

This is a video of my apartments balcony

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 the first, and most unknown parts of the pandemic, my family and I were in a small apartment in Miami. There was less information about the pandemic, so we weren't really leaving the house for anything, and our only access to the outside world was a small balcony. We had never really used the balcony, or the apartment for that matter, but it was a safe place where we could regain our sanity at the end of the day, together. Whether this was my mom and I reading our books, or my entire family watching the sunset, listening to music, and talking, we could not have made it through those first few months of the pandemic without this outside space.

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#Miami #Happy

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

Charlotte Dinsmore

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2020-04-10
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