Remembering Our Last Lunch

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Remembering Our Last Lunch

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On Friday, March 13, 2020 it was pouring rain. My co-worker/work wife/love of my life/bestest friend - the Ann Perkins to my Leslie Knope (very accurate if you know us) bought us McDonald’s for lunch. We jokingly called it “the end of the world as we know it lunch” and played REM while drinking Shamrock Shakes. We were in denial about what was happening around us. Two hours later, it was the end. We have not had lunch together, or been physically together, since then. (However, we probably outdo any teenagers in the amount we text each other. We’ve pretty much live tweeted ever minute of our incredibly mundane days to each other throughout all of quarantine.) Today, we both bought McDonald’s separately (for me, only the fifth time having fast food since shut down last March) to celebrate our year-versary of the “end of the world” lunch. One year later, it’s raining again, but it feels so different. A year ago, everything was closing down. Today, everything is opening up. I am thankful we’ve both received vaccination one, and although we are both apprehensive about school reopening in a week, the thought of seeing her face to face (six feet away and in a mask) makes me happy enough to cry. There is nothing I hope more for than for the efficacy of the vaccinations. I can only hope that the second Friday of March 2022 will see us together in my classroom, eating McDonald’s for lunch, talking about how we can’t believe we lived through a pandemic. A rainbow instead of rain would be a nice touch, too.

Date (Dublin Core)

March 12, 2021

Creator (Dublin Core)

Kathryn Jue

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Kathryn Jue

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English Emotion

English Food & Drink

English Education--K12

English Social Distance

English Health & Wellness

English Public Health & Hospitals

English Online Learning

English Labor

English Social Media (including Memes)

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social distance

memory

anniversary

celebration

mask

reopening

school

teacher

friendship

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California

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safety

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rain

McDonald's

hope

last lunch

reopening school

teacher

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K-12

Vaccine Stories

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Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

03/13/2021

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

03/19/2021

Date Created (Dublin Core)

03/12/2021

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This item was submitted on March 13, 2021 by Kathryn Jue using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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