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To Whom It May Concern

Checking in to see how everyone is doing. 2020 has been a lot to deal with.  The pandemic has caused a lot of mixed emotions in itself. I know it has me rethinking a lot of things. I had no idea how bad my anxiety would be this year. While dealing with COVID and having concern for family and friends who lost their jobs, we were dealt the deaths of Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery. Shortly after, we had to watch a white woman threaten a black man with the police. We watched her call 911, telling them that there was an African American man in Central Park and she felt her life was endanger. Reminding us of the injustice of Central 5, she screamed in the phone while almost choking her dog to death. We sat angry with all of the shit that was going on, trying our hardest to stay sane until May 25th. An African American man by the name of George Floyd was accused of using a counterfeit 20.00 bill. Because of this, for 8 minutes and 46 seconds we watched a police officer pin him down by p