Collected Item: “Virtual Funeral”
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Virtual Funeral
What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?
photo
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.
This is my fourth virtual funeral in less than a year. Although covid has been around for about a year, it didn't really hit home until a few short months ago. Los Angeles has been hit hard, and being from a large minority group I have lost a few people close to me. The first was my best friend's dad, then his brother, then another friend's brother. The photo is of a funeral that I am currently watching. I grew up in a large church in Los Angeles, this beautiful lady very well knew in the Hispanic Pentecostal community. She watched me grow up, attended my sweet fifteen and my wedding. She had the biggest heart and loved God fiercely. She was my mom's good friend and in January she contracted covid, by the end of the month she was gone. I've quickly realized that the only thing harder than losing so many people in such a short time span is not being able to say goodbye.
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virtual, funeral, church, death, loss, Los Angeles, pentecostal,
Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)
Angelica S Ramos
Give this story a date.
2021-03-05