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Weekly Contest #84
All I ever knew were masks. My mother sometimes showed me her whole face, but only if we were out in the open, far away from anyone else; and she only could show me her smile for 10 seconds at a time. We weren't allowed to take them off. She used to tell me stories of the days without masks. She told me that a virus made everyone sick, when she was 6 years old. She said the Earth wasn't ready for a pandemic of that size. The different nations had started wars with each other over vaccines and supplies. It got so bad that many nations t...
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