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Collected Item: “Pandemic Hack: Homemade child’s mask”

Give your story a title.

Pandemic Hack: Homemade child’s mask

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

text story, photograph

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.

This story is about how I "hacked" a pandemic experience: wearing a mask as a young child. I was having trouble finding a mask that my youngest child felt comfortable wearing, so I made one from a pajama shirt she had outgrown! It fit comfortably and brought new life to an old piece of clothing that carries special memories from years past.

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?

#pandemicprompt, #HST580, #ArizonaStateUniversity, #pandemichack, #mask, #wild, #child

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

Monica Ruth

Give this story a date.

2020-06-17
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