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The Pandemic Left Me This Creepy Baby

Of all the haunting remnants of the past year, the one I can’t shake is my daughter’s eerily real doll

Sarah Stankorb
Human Parts
Published in
8 min readJun 22, 2021

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We were falling deep into our pandemic winter, and after the better part of a year of fully online or hybrid school, my daughter’s noneducational hours had become dominated by additional…

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Sarah Stankorb
Human Parts

Sarah Stankorb has published with The Washington Post, Marie Claire, Glamour, O, and The Atlantic (among others). @sarahstankorb www.sarahstankorb.com