Ever since the pandemic started and quarantine was put into action, nothing much changed for me. I normally stayed inside the house all the time. The only things that changed for me were the fact that I had to wear a mask every time I went out (which wasn’t that often at first), and going into online school, which only changed my routine a bit. The big change didn’t actually affect my schedule as much. There were loads and loads of positives that pranced into my life, but of course, with positives comes negatives, obviously. Although there were little negatives, they still changed me or affected my mental state, but I distracted myself and those emotions I had only dimmed. Sure they were still there, but they weren’t as bothersome, simply a staircase I had to climb to get to where I wanted.

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During the first few months of the pandemic, I had visited my friend and her dog, Cookie. It was the first time I'd seen them since the sixth grade. She took this picture of Cookie and I playing in her backyard. ( Leslie H.)