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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

18F? Were you born a granny (or old person)?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

sorry, force of habit. i'm actually a middle aged dude from canada. (i hope you have a good sense of humour)

it was actually a few days into my first year of college. i remember waking up, seeing it briefly on the news before making my way to school (remember, this was before cell phones and a lot of web stuff). when i got to school, i remember standing just inside the door by the bar watching it all unfold on one of the big, ugly CRT televisions they had mounted in the lobby area. i called my dad, but i don't remember the conversation. back then i was still a dumb kid in the dial-up internet days, and i was on a big Nostradamus kick. i remember my ex-girlfriend called me up all freaked out because she remembered me talking to her about some shit i read that sounded a lot like what happened at the time. (i don't believe that stuff now, but it was all really freaky as a kid at the time)