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A group text message between family members after a major hurricane.

The submitter provided the following about the artifact's history: A text between me my dad and my sister just days after hurricane Ian ravished our hometown. He assures us that everything will be ok and that our dog, Frankie is helping out.

Carly McGovern, Mallory McGovern, and Father McGovern

Carly McGovern

Unpublished

English

2000-2024

text message

digital

Person to Person (Digital)

I know you have been both worrying and it's probably distressing to hearing about all of this through the news. Mom, me and of course Frankie are fine. ( Frankie was beside himself when I brought the guys over to cut trees today... made many new friends). All the family is safe and sound. We will all recover. It's now when we all need to be thankful for all we have. Just keep focusing on what you have going as clearly you both are doing well on your own. We will see you seen. Dad

Yes and lots of good news today with more people getting power quickly! Glad Frankie is on the job.
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I'm glad to hear everyone is doing much better. Just up from here

First block of text surrounded by iPhone gray text bubble. Next two replies surrounding by iPhone blue text bubbles. Final block of text also surrounded by gray text bubble.

Linguistic: 12:45 at top left of phone screen, "2 people" at text chain title, "Text Message Sat, Oct 1, 9:47 PM" above text chain, "Father McGovern" above first text message, "iMessage" above submitter's response, "Mallory McGovern" above last reply, "Sat, Oct 29, 8:52 AM" below last reply.

Visual: 2 profile bubbles at text chain title, one containing a picture resembling a cat that displays as Father McGovern's profile picture, and the other a circle surrounding the letters "MM" for Mallory McGovern's profile.