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• The Who: Linds
• The Where: Marina del Rey, CA
• The Link: "My friend's decorative birdcage."

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• The Where: Stanford, CA
• The Link: "A license plate."

• The Link: "Water from a flowerbed."

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• The Who: Karla Mironov
• The Where: Brooklyn, NY
• The Link: "To go please."

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• The Who: Linds
• The Where: Mendocino, CA
• The Link: "Cool, hardware heart. A coworker sent this to me for the Chain-Link Heart Project."

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• The Who: Karin Andersson
• The Where: Gagnef, Sweden
• The Link: "And lots of love to sweet Jennifer and her adorable daughter H. Hope you're feeling well and having a great time!"

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• The Who: Kimberley Morris Rosen
• The Where: Menlo Park, CA
• The Link: "Put on my heart shirt to meet Cormac, but making do with Freddy cuddles."

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• The Who: Cormac Horn via Keri Y. Ng
• The Where: Palo Alto, CA
• The Link: "Showing off Mommy's leftover adhesive on her forearm from the hospital."

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• The Who: Mama/Nonna
• The Where: Portola Valley, CA
• The Link: "Can I get these heart Vans for you?" (Why, of course!)

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• The Who: Caren Ang-Oay Pineda

• The Where: Bacolod, Negros, Philippines

• The Link: "Found this heart in a restaurant. I love the light which gives a promise of dear friends coming back."

• The Who: Elsa Valmidiano, Elsie Valmidiano, Caren Ang-Oay Pineda

• The Where: Wildlife Sanctuary, Olango Island, Cebu, Philippines

• The Link: "Experienced my first Signal 2 typhoon and getting stranded on Olango Island with my Bacolod bestie, mommy, and auntie. But what do we do a couple of days after a typhoon? We go for a little hike and go bird-watching like the typhoon never happened. I feel like the three of us found this heart on one of the stone steps leading to a lookout point of a very undisturbed and breathtaking mirror lake. I think I remember all of us squealing when we found this heart as the place was absolutely deserted, so it was amazing to find this heart waiting for us. We ended up not seeing very many birds that morning, but that’s okay. We were the only ones out there!"

• The Who: Elsa Valmidiano

• The Where: Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Philippines

• The Link: "I was so excited to find these hearts carved into these beautiful Tagbanua masks. My mom, aunt, and I had spent the afternoon shopping at the market when I found these. While I wanted to buy one, they’re actually too humongous to lug home, but I’m glad to have gotten a shot. The cult of the dead is the key to the Tagbanua religious system and they believe in several deities found in the natural environment as well as the belief in soul-relatives. I thought these masks with hearts were a way of speaking to us from the other side. So wonderful to find them and of course, to find Lorenzo here peaking among them."

• The Who: Elsa Valmidiano

• The Where: Talima Resort, Olango Island, Cebu, Philippines

• The Link: "The tide had pulled out very early that morning, so far out that you could go exploring in the tidepools. It was about 7 AM when I went to explore the tidepools by myself. I spotted this heart on the reef my first morning on Olango Island. Beautiful way of being greeted in Cebu."

• The Who: Elsa Valmidiano

• The Where: Lapu Lapu City, Cebu, Philippines

• The Link: "My mom had not seen her cousins in 40 years. The last time she saw them was the first time she met them, and now we were meeting them for the second time in her life. We had met up for lunch at a delicious seafood restaurant where this humongous heart made of crabs was on the wall. Unforgettable lunch with an unforgettable heart on the wall."

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• The Who: Ryan
• The Where: Santiago, Chile
• The Link: "Pepperoncinis for breakfast."

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• The Who: Najwa Culver
• The Where: Redlands, CA
• The Link: "I had driven to my parents' house in Redlands with Alexis to spend the day with my mom and my mom and I both really wanted to get out in nature. I've always loved being in nature but even more so since losing Logan, it somehow feels healing. Anyway, so we drove to Forest Falls and the three of us were having so much fun just climbing over the rocks and being silly. And then, suddenly, as so often happens these days, I was hit with this incredibly intense wave of grief. I have no idea what triggered it. I didn't start to cry but was just riding out the wave of sadness and Alexis looked at me and looked into my eyes and just knew, she always does. Usually, she gives me a hug and she'll say something like "It's ok Mama, I know you're sad" or "I know you're sad about the baby Mama, we all are." This time, she said "Mama, I want to give you something." Then, she climbed on top of this rock, made a heart, and said "A heart. Because I love you so much Mama!" It was the sweetest thing and, even in that moment of intense grief, she made me smile. She has an uncanny ability to make me smile or laugh when all I want to do is cry. I am so grateful for her. And I feel like, especially in those moments, her beautiful big heart is doing what it can to heal my own heart."

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• The Who: Lisa M. Darling
• The Where: Brooklyn, NY
• The Link: "Hearts every day. Hearts in my soup."

• The Link: "The little signs that remind us that we are loved."

• The Link: "One man's trash..."

• The Link: "Wow. Feeling the love!"

• The Link: Heart #4 :)

• The Link: #chainlinkheartproject

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• The Who: Carrie Dillon
• The Where: Peoria, IL
• The Link: "Okay @jmassdini I'm not sure if this one works but this man has been blessed with a balding heart. Too cute!!!"

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• The Who: Nina La Fountaine
• The Where: Santiago, Chile
• The Link: #chainlinkheartproject

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• The Who: Jen Duran
• The Where: Las Vegas, NV
• The Link: "Art and a model."

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• The Who: David Massoni
• The Where: Brooklyn, NY
• The Link: "#chainlinkheartproject from the streets of Brooklyn."

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• The Who: Brook Marcogliese
• The Where: New Canaan, CT
• The Link: "Same coffee spot every morning for years. This a.m., napkin happiness."

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• The Who: Kimberley Morris Rosen
• The Where: Santiago, Chile --> Menlo Park, CA
• The Link: "A beautiful note all the way from Santiago."

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• The Who: Michele Janezic
• The Where: San Francisco, CA
• The Link: "Be the love you want to see."

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• The Who: Shari Wagner
• The Where: Sayulita, Mexico
• The Link: "Love."

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• The Where: San Francisco, CA
• The Link: "Easing back in from vacation."

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• The Who: Stephen Massoni
• The Where: Brooklyn, NY
• The Link: "Sending our love."

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• The Who: David Massoni
• The Where: Brooklyn, NY
• The Link: "I needed this today... a little heart to remind me to love... so I started with myself and went in for a physical."

• The Link: "This tree had a heart..."

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• The Who: Keri Y. Ng
• The Where: Kauai, HI
• The Link: "Heart rock in Kauai."

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• The Who: Tallulah Whaley
• The Where: Redding, CT
• The Link: #chainlinkheartproject

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• The Who: Leslie Kraus --> Nonna
• The Where: Portola Valley, CA
• The Link: "What a sweet gesture. Two more hearts!"

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• The Who: Brook Marcogliese

• The Where: New Canaan, CT

• The Link: "Today's hearts."

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• The Who: Emily Heitmann
• The Where: Houston, TX
• The Link: "Couldn't wait to cut into Eric's birthday cake. See the heart @jmassdini?"

• The Link: "Evie found a heart in her cereal and wanted to show you @jmassdini."

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• The Who: Karla Mironov
• The Where: Brooklyn, NY
• The Link: "Good morning mama. I made you this heart. You can keep it." ~ Olesya  Gah! My heart!!"

• The Link: "Oh hey beautiful."

• The Link: "My first dirty chai EVER! SO serious."