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Collected Item: “Lan Wangji The Forklift”

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Lan Wangji The Forklift

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text story. I found it on the website of thegeekiary.com

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The coronavirus outbreak is a very serious situation, but fandom is managing to find cute ways to be both helpful and entertaining during the health crisis. Lan Wangji is a major character of a Chinese novel, cartoons and TV dramas. And now he’s being honored with a forklift named after him. The forklift is helping build the temporary hospitals intended to house people with the coronavirus.

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#Langwangji,Forklift

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https://thegeekiary.com/lan-wangji-the-forklift-the-surprising-intersection-of-fandom-the-coronavirus/77267

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Angel Wilson from the geekiary.com

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2020-01
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