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Pandemia • We All Went Home

Pandemia • We All Went Home begins on the final day of in-person school, before the closures of the pandemic. Em’s class has been looking forward to this Fun Friday for weeks, it’s dress-up biography day! The biography presentations were so good that there wasn’t enough time for all students to present. Their teacher announced that the remaining six students would share their biography reports on Monday.  The class rushed to pack up for dismissal.  

School is dismissed as usual. Mami keeps checking her phone all the way home. Em thinks about school.
Mami tells Em about a new, very contagious virus and the governor's order to lockdown. Em is frightened..
Em is filled with anxiety, worried about Grandma in the city. Mom explains that she'll be in their "coronavirus bubble."
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