I remember the day very vividly. I was almost 20, and I was in seond year Uni at the University of Winnipeg.
I was sleeping at my then-boyfriend's place and he woke up at around 7am and turned the radio on CBC and I could hear the presenter talking about how a plane has flown into the towers and I thought I was dreaming it.
As I was slowly waking up, I realized it wasn't a dream, so I put on some clothes and went out into the common area of his flat where everyone was huddled around the TV watching the news.
Later on, we went to the Uni, and all of the students were huddled around TVs that the students union has set up in common areas and people were crying. The rest of the day was a blur, and I had no idea that it would change us forever.
I was nine. I live SO far away from anything that would ever be a terrorist target, and I was so young, so I didn't really feel an impact from it. I understood what happened, didn't understand why (though I don't even know if anybody does) and certainly didn't understand the mass grief. I knew people died, and people were injured, but they were ... it's so hard to describe. The death of a person didn't hold much weight with me, because it was a faceless nameless person. It didn't affect my daily life and I didn't lose anybody, I don't know anybody who lost anybody, etc. So it felt real in the sense that I knew what happened, but it didn't feel REAL the way it did to adults
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I was sleeping at my then-boyfriend's place and he woke up at around 7am and turned the radio on CBC and I could hear the presenter talking about how a plane has flown into the towers and I thought I was dreaming it.
As I was slowly waking up, I realized it wasn't a dream, so I put on some clothes and went out into the common area of his flat where everyone was huddled around the TV watching the news.
Later on, we went to the Uni, and all of the students were huddled around TVs that the students union has set up in common areas and people were crying. The rest of the day was a blur, and I had no idea that it would change us forever.
So yes, I do remember a pre-911 world.
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