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I'm noticing lately that my conception of a thing being "current" versus "old" depends on whether that thing happened before or after September 2001.
I picked up a book a couple months ago--some political terrorism thriller from the late eighties--and had to put it down about fifty pages into it. The big scary thing they were trying to prevent was so trivial compared to 9/11. I just couldn't get worked up about it the way the main characters were. I think I realized at that point just how much the world changed that day.
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