Collected Item: “Social Distancing BFFs”
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Social Distancing BFFs
What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?
Photograph. I took it.
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My 7-year-old daughter and one of her best friends since the toddler room were signed up for their first year of softball and first team sport together. Then the Stay at Home order happened. The organizers kept asking us to hang on and wait and see if we could play this year. In June, they got the go ahead from the state for practices. I was on the fence, but they had good safety protocols in place and my daughter is high energy and very athletic, so I decided she could go ahead and play. So did her friend’s family. The girls have been good about wearing masks and kind of good at keeping 6 feet apart through the 2 weeks of practices. This week, which would have been the end of their regular season, they had their first game. At the end as we were leaving, they came up with this way to be together and connected while being safe and apart.
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#COVID, #softball, #Chicago, #friendship, #creativity, #connection
Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)
Amy Lund
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2020-07-08