Collected Item: “Happy Birthday...”
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Happy Birthday...
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Today is April 16th, 2020. Instead of waking my mom up with breakfast in bed, she sends me a photo of herself layered in protective gear. At the time my mother was working at one of the largest hospitals in Queens. She went from working four days a week to working six-seven days a week as the rates of COVID-19 hospitalizations increased. Today is her birthday and instead of celebrating life, she is surrounded by fear, death, and uncertainty. Thank you Mom for being strong and putting your life at risk as an essential worker.
Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday
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I am sole creator
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#hospital#work#mom
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2020-04-16
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Junior- Health & Nutrition
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Intro to Public Health Professor Margrethe Horlyck-Romanovsky
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