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SOCIAL: LIKE, COMMENT, smile

AS THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC took over life as we knew it in March, and we quickly went from making witty isolation-themed playlists to having every single social interaction via Skype for the foreseeable future, it seemed that, for the first time in recent memory, social media went from something that felt borderline unhealthy at times, to one of our most necessary and useful means of connection.

To counter the almost overwhelmingly negative fallout from the virus, the ways in which we managed to find pockets of hope and connection while living life at a distance felt only as endless as our creativity (and wi-fi). Think cheesy

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