Meg Anderson

People call it Eat Street.

There's tons of really good restaurants.

Most of them or many of them are immigrant-owned.

And you watch the videos and you're like...

There's a really weird element there of being really familiar with a place and then seeing these things, these horrible things happen.

I picked up takeout for us.

I went to a place to get burritos.

We did a pickup order and you go there and...

It's like there are people standing guard outside.

You can't enter.

It's locked.

They kind of radio in on a walkie talkie.

You're you're who you are and what you ordered.

They bring it out to you and then you go back to your car.

And then I kind of went on my way to my friend's house.

I was OK.

I was I was pretty far back and it was it was fine.

But it was just weird to like have that happen and go home and, you know, have to shower and wash my clothes.

And then like we made dinner, you know, and it was kind of like, well, what else are we going to do?

I think it is a level of emotional drain that is really intense.