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when the world stopped, we connected in the one place we still could

A dull headache began banging in my skull during my family’s Christmas party. Soon after, my throat ached with irritation and my sinuses had become a desert. I had COVID-19.

It was the feeling you get when you start falling while dreaming, or when your stomach drops and you feel like something is about to go terribly, terribly wrong.

March 13, 2020 I hosted a party for my sister’s eighteenth birthday Red cups laden to the brim with sticky, peachy liquid

The Ubyssey explored how social isolation can influence our mental health and wellbeing, shedding light on one of the unprecedented pitfalls of pandemic living.

But I’ll tell you all the truth: TikTok made me politically conscious.

What would they say to me? Would they sing for me? Send me away with the words of a love song so I know I have lived.

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