Collected Item: “Letter from Mum”
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Letter from Mum
What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?
letters
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With lots of extra time to spare during the lockdowns, my Mum started writing letters to me as a way to share news. This was a lovely way to stay in touch between Australia and New Zealand, although by the time the letters made it through the very very slow postal system they were weeks out of date. This particular letter from the very start of the pandemic captures the novelty and chaos of the situation very well -- most events are starting to be cancelled, the border between NZ and AU has shut, and everyone is slowly coming to terms with what's happening.
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Letter, New Zealand, Australia, Lockdown
Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)
Self
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2020-03-20