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Collected Item: “Home for The Holidays”

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Home for The Holidays

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

Phtotograph

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 live in Florida and my friend goes to school in Vermont, but for the holiday's she decided to come home. We knew this would be risky situation with her flying and having stops between, so I was able to get an extra rapid test for her since my family was already getting tested. We haven't seen each other since August, so we had been eager to be back at home together again, even though things are so different. Everyone has gone through a difficult time this year; one of the things I feel hit home is that my final stages of "childhood" and cherishing everything before I move was not at all what I wanted it to be. Now that my best friend and I are safely home together for winter break, I know we will both be doing our best to soak up all of our hometown before everything changes for good.

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?

#holidays, #friends, #test, #Covid-19, #negative, #safe, #scared

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

Katie Kobie

Give this story a date.

2020-11-30
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