lyndsey davis has this story. >> reporter: the unmasking of american heros looks back at a dedicationterally left an indelible impression. care if nurses all battling the covid crisis in new orleans last year. their stories are written all over their faces and necks arms and face. each nurse using a body part as a diary. dear world is organization that tells stories through portraits. nurses like taylor working 12 to 14 hour shifts only to return home to her husband and three children in the early evening. >> mommy. >> hey guys. >> before covid i didn't worry about hugging my kids. or kissing my children. or doing any of those things and now i do. now i'm paranoid. now every time i hug or kiss them i'm scared that i'm going to pass it to them. >> reporter: 10 months later, a lot has changed for jamie. >> i'm feeling like some sense of hope, a lot of sense of relief. i'm also vaccinated. so that's amazing. but i don't have the same sense of doom that i had initially. like i used to be paranoid about kissing them. kissing my own children. and i don't anymore. >> lyndsey davis, new york.