It is 2001, and I meticulously track the baseball season. My favorite team, the Atlanta Braves, are tracking well into yet another division title. I am both a bachelor and a night owl and routinely fall asleep to the television on ESPN’s Sports Center. This is precisely what happens on this September Monday; I expect to wake to the morning version of Sports Center. I do not. The conventional news plays on ESPN, which perplexes me. Then, I watch in horror as I see a plane strike one of the Twin Towers in New York City. Quite abruptly, the world changed.
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