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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I remember things when I'm abroad. I was living in Spain during Tiennaman Square and I was living in England when the Oklahoma City bombing took place.
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Me too. I was in Germany when the whole mad-cow story broke. Weirdly, Kreutzfeld-Jakob sounds the same in German as it does in English.
I was in Florence when the tsunami happened. All we ever saw on TV (not that we watched much) were West Wing reruns dubbed in Italian, and Tsunami coverage. I remember that there was a tsunami expert named Waverly Person, and I thought that was a strange example of a person's name reflecting their profession.
And I was in London when the European heatwave started in 2003.
I was in Maine with my parents when I heard that Elvis died. We had just finished breakfast at a diner. That same summer, they caught Son of Sam and Star Wars came out and I got braces, much too early.
Closer to home, I heard about both Reagan's shooting and John Lennon's murder in the same place -- on the school bus, from Bunky Easterson, who also dubbed me the chairperson of the IBTC, also on the bus. Oh, that Bunky.
I was in my office reading Lawtalkers when I heard that Britney had delivered her first son.
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