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caption: Is this mask going to stop coronavirus? No. Could you get away with it on the cover of Vogue Italia that you shoot yourself with your iPhone? Let's talk about that.
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Is this mask going to stop coronavirus? No. Could you get away with it on the cover of Vogue Italia that you shoot yourself with your iPhone? Let's talk about that.
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Nostalgic for the days when you could feel the wind on your lips? You're not alone.

I wanna be where the people are

I wanna see

Wanna see ‘em dancing

Walking around with the – what’s the word again?

“Masks. Right now, the word is masks,” says R. Eric Thomas, senior staff writer at Elle.com and author of the memoir Here For It: Or, How To Save Your Soul In America.

Masks can be functional, fashionable, or utterly useless, but for the foreseeable future they’re here to stay. What do they say about our personalities? Our anxieties? Our ability to pull together a lewk?

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