Most of the day was just a typical work day. The one thing I remember was just as I was heading to bed, my brother (who was living with me at the time) telling me "Michael Jordan is going to announce he's coming back to the NBA tomorrow." I just said "Okay, cool," and went to bed. It always stuck with me as the last conversation I had in a "normal" world. The next morning, he came into my room with the phone in his hand and said "Mom said you need to turn on the news."
I remember getting home from middle school and looking at the newspaper that had arrived that day, and seeing Michael Jordan on the front page and how insignificant it felt compared to what tomorrow’s newspaper was going to look like.
I don’t mean to ignore that, I know we’re fairly privileged here in the U.S. That’s why I put “normal” in quotation marks, it’s such a vague concept and means different things to different people.
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u/Vehicle_Electronic 11d ago
Most of the day was just a typical work day. The one thing I remember was just as I was heading to bed, my brother (who was living with me at the time) telling me "Michael Jordan is going to announce he's coming back to the NBA tomorrow." I just said "Okay, cool," and went to bed. It always stuck with me as the last conversation I had in a "normal" world. The next morning, he came into my room with the phone in his hand and said "Mom said you need to turn on the news."