NEXUS: WELCOME...HOME?
It is hard to gauge where the story of Wenyue Ruan fits among the pantheon of Covid stories. We tend to allow ourselves to get lost so much in the large scale tragedies, the life and death of it all, and the heartbreaking stuff. We hear about sons not being able to say goodbye to their fathers or beloved members of communities having limited funerals due to yet another lockdown. Our tragedy radar has been set so inevitably high in the last 12 months that it is easy to miss the small things or minimise the complaints of those who have to scale down a wedding, postpone an orientation, or whose parents can’t fly in to see their child graduate. Wenyue graduated last year and immediately found a full-time job here at Nexus where she had also done her internship. She was more fortunate than others because she had a December Graduation and it wasn’t cancelled outright. And although her story is one that is personal to her it is also becoming far less rare.
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