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Our nightmare comes true

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Our nightmare comes true

The hospitals are filling up

Shasta Kearns Moore
Aug 15, 2021
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Our nightmare comes true

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“I didn’t yet understand that when humanity protects the frail among us, and works to ensure their survival, the human project as a whole gets stronger.” — John Green

An open and slightly distressed box of N95 masks. The blue lettering on a white box reads, in part, “Zhong Yi Mask, ZYB-11, N95 Particulate Respirator without valve”

I don’t know why I woke up.

I still think about what could have happened if I hadn’t. 

It was about 3 a.m. We were living with my in-laws because we couldn’t afford to stay in our house. Like…

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