And I mean in like, The 2011 Japan earthquake where our days literally got faster, COVID because … Y’know. COVID. Etc.

What’s a time in your life you experienced something like that, when was it and what ended up happening to you?

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    I must say that nothing afterwards has ever given me the feeling of This Changes Everything quite the way the fall of the Berlin Wall did.

    Two evenings ago I had dinner with a friend who grew up on the other side of the wall. It’s not something that we really talk about very often, but it’s impossible to forget.

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      I was at the thrift store the other day and I found a box for $5 for sale that had a piece of the Berlin Wall in it.

      I don’t even know why, but I had to snap it up, and now it’s sitting on my little curio shelf.

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        You got a bargain. I think my parents have a piece somewhere as well. It was world -changing for them.

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      Something similar happens to me. I get shocked every time I meet someone who was born in the USSR.