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Collected Item: “Humans of Covid-19 AU: Nicole”

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Humans of Covid-19 AU: Nicole, events

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

Instagram post

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.

“Like everyone else, I was feeling a bit gloomy and today is actually the anniversary of my brother passing away, so I wanted to do something that would bring sunshine to people walking past.
I’d like to see my friends and my god-children. And my family. It’s a month since I saw my mum - I don’t think I’ve ever not seen her for that long! I work in the events industry, so that was one of the first areas to get hit pretty hard.
The simplicity of it all is something I’m discovering I like, yet never knew it… the slow breakfasts, extra time cuddling my son, not rushing everywhere. Ironically the team I’m in is closer than ever before, linking up from all around the world. That’s another unexpected.
Life throws you curveballs every now and then. You just got to go with it”

Instagram post on Nicole and her experience during the pandemic, which was created by a psychology student living in Melbourne who was interested to hear about how COVID-19 was impacting on different peoples’ lives.

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?

Australia, personal experience, work, family

Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B_CRP_tDmWP/

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

Amira Moshinsky

Give this story a date.

2020-04-16
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