Skimm Special: Quarantine Memories Worth Keeping

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🗓️ 16 August 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Where were you when heard the country was in a national emergency because of COVID-19? If you can remember where you were, down to what Netflix you were binging, there’s a name for that. In today’s Skimm Special, brought to you in partnership with Shutterfly, we’ll speak with an expert who’ll explain why that memory is crystal clear. Then we’ll hear from Skimm’rs all over the U.S. who celebrated big milestones in quarantine, and made great memories regardless. On this episode, you’ll hear from: Linda Levine, Professor of Psychology and Social Behavior at UC-Irvine Olivia Hall, recently married emergency medicine doctor in San Francisco Maryan Adan, New Mission High School’s valedictorian ‘20 and incoming Harvard University freshman Cydney Mitchell, recently pregnant Atlanta-based interior designer Let us know what questions you have about what’s going on in the news right now. Email us at audio@theskimm.com or call and leave us a voicemail at: 646-461-6370. You might hear your message on the show. If you want to add theSkimm to your daily routine, sign-up for our free newsletter the Daily Skimm. It’s everything you need to know to start your day, right in your inbox. Skimm'd by Olivia Reingold, Justine Davie, Marion Lozano, and Julia Nutter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today's episode is brought to you by Shutterfly. Shutterfly helps you embrace and capture any moment old or new.
0:07.0	It's not every day you live through history, but that's what's happening right now.
0:15.0	This is truly an unprecedented situation.
0:18.0	US officials estimate that 20 million Americans have been infected with COVID-19.
0:22.0	We may be, we may well be in a recession.
0:25.0	This is history because things are bad.
0:27.0	Lives have been upended.
0:29.0	It's history on a national scale, but also on a personal one.
0:33.0	Because when life moved indoors, it didn't stop. It just changed.
0:38.0	And we spoke with skimmers who say they figured out how to make the best of a very chaotic and unexpected situation.
0:45.0	Honestly, my zoom birthday rocked.
0:47.0	It was all just like through the phone or me videotaping or sending it to her and being like 32 weeks.
0:52.0	Yay!
0:53.0	The audio got cut off, which went through our mouths, but it was really, really special.
0:59.0	If you're like us, this period has been a lot of staring at the microwave, refreshing Twitter, and making tie-dye everything.
1:06.0	In a lot of ways, it's been a blur.
1:09.0	But these skimmers remind us that life is still happening, and that it's important to find ways to remember the good times too.
1:17.0	When it comes to skim-h-cures, we love to remember special moments with Shutterfly.
1:22.0	Some of us have used our downtime during quarantine to create photo books, and some of us are showing off our new wall art on Instagram.
1:30.0	Linda Levine studies the intersection of emotion and memory at UC Irvine.
1:34.0	And she says, this moment we're living in is one of those once-in-a-lifetime deals.
1:40.0	It has all the elements that would lead to really lasting vivid memories.
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