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    An Ode to Mom, COVID, and the Internment

    Sep 04, 2020 4 minutes
     By Laura Saimoto

     Nikkei National Museum, 2010.80.2.76

    As the COVID crisis was emerging in mid-March, I was going about my daily life and I started to feel this deja-vu feeling as I watched the news and as life as we knew it started to shut down. First the travel ban, school shutdowns, business shutdowns, self-quarantine, and the amount of fear and uncertainty hanging in the air, and buried in everyone’s hearts. There was the shock of it all, how serious and deeply structural this was, and how life as we knew it was no longer, but then knowing that, I did not know what was going to come next.

    And the speed of all that was

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