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Collected Item: “Jekyll Island as a New Family of Four”

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Jekyll Island as a New Family of Four

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

Text Story

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.

The attached experience is more broad than what I alone felt comfortable with travel-wise. It is about the need to get out of the house and have some return to normalcy with a newborn and a toddler at home, while also trying to keep them as safe as possible. There were so many unknowns about how COVID worked, and so much certainty about the lack of immune systems in newborn babies. This travel story is significant because it reminds me of a season of life that was so incredibly challenging to navigate for a multitude of reasons, which only made little wins like afternoons on the beach so much sweeter.

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#ArizonaStateUniversity, #HST643, #SpringASession2025, #HistoryofTourism, #JekyllIsland, #Newborn

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

Self

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2020-06-01
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