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(Closed) Letter

4/10/2020

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A Closed-Letter to Corona Virus (it would be an open letter but nothing's open anymore), 

It feels universal: that gnawing pit behind the belly-button, the rock by the larynx, the heaviness behind the eyes. As a child, I think you dream of the day the world stops: No school, your parents staying home, making pillow-forts and reading The Little Prince. It sounds fanciful and full of snacks before snack-time and sneaking chocolate chips from cookie batter. But, the reality of the world stopping is far more bleak. It's staring at screens and cabin fever. It's becoming a sore loser and missing routine. But worse, yet, it isn't just you playing hooky on a Tuesday, it's week-after-week, with no end in-sight. It's jobs that stop paying, it's plans you can't plan for. 

And sometimes the un-planning of plans, years in the works, makes it hard to breathe. The build-up, the expectation, the why is this happening to me? But when the selfishness subsides, it's like grasping at straws, sometimes, but there is something 

In a world where we have lost so much sense of community, to all be experiencing so much of the same feelings, in real-time, it sobering. 



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Honey Bouganim
4/10/2020 06:01:28 pm

Beautifully worded. Nobody gets away unscathed

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