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Where were you on 9/11/01?

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fujarome
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i don't want any conspiracy bullshit or anything like that, this is neither the time nor place to discuss it.

9/11 effected the people more than anything, and being that we, ns'ers, are people...i think it's more interesting to see where we were, how old we were, what we were doing etc etc. NS is in general a younger crowd, and i think the younger generation is left out when discussing 9/11. All i read about is how everyone was at work and so on...

So NS, where were you on 9/11/01?

I'll start. I was in 6th grade, and it was a beautiful day out. From my bus stop that morning, i could see planes leaving Boston, and i watched them gracefully flying off into the distance, completely unaware. The school day was completely normal, except for the fact that there were more police around, and we weren't allowed outside for recess. They didn't tell us anything, which in retrospect, i can somewhat understand.

When i got home, i ran off the bus, and my mother met me outside and asked if i knew what had happened. I then watched cnn replay the events of the day for hours. And that night i remember watching George bush address the nation, and specifically my father stated that "you'll remember this forever. This is going to be your pearl harbor."

and he was right.
Sep 11 2010 12:35AM
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ferrinski86
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wow, i was alot older. I was a freshman in highschool.

it was a beautiful day.

by the time i got to school the first tower had already been hit. they told us over the speaker phone.

all but my math class was cancelled. they played patriotic music over the loud speakers all day long and we watched TV non stop in my classes.

ill never forget that day. ever

i remember they shut down the interstate for emergency travel only after the attacks because so many emergency vehicles were traveling to and from the wreck. i remember the government shutting down air traffic, something that had never been done before. can you imagine shutting down the entire USA air traffic in a couple of hours? of course i never imagined i would have to see the twin towers collapse either. my brothers friend was overseas and she could not fly into our country because of the cease fly order.

it was quite the memory.

Sep 11 2010 2:36AM
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r0dubs
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watched the repeat in my kitchen for 5 minutes, not realy realizing what it meant, then i went to school and my teacher was crying and i knew something was up
Sep 11 2010 2:36AM
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a_pla5tic_bag
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Oh yeah, then i went to a spot where you could see the towers, my parents filmed it. They were burning when i saw them.
Sep 11 2010 2:38AM
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Tripplesixty
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definitly woke up at 6am pst to my radio telling me it had happened... ran down stairs to see it on tv... crazy day, surreal
Sep 11 2010 3:01AM
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Oreos
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at school (UK time) totally oblivious, school told us nothing. then got into the car with mum and she told me, didn't really know what to think, believe or imagine. it was mental, especially as we spent the previous new years in NY.
Sep 11 2010 3:03AM
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geteducated
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high school. i was on lunch or on a spare. tv's are in the main hallways. i was there 2 weeks before it happened. got to go in the wtc and its underground mall system.
Sep 11 2010 3:06AM
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skithebert
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it blows me away that practically everyone was in elementary school. you can't understand what's going on in the world when you are in elementary school. i was in highschool and barely knew what was going on.
Sep 11 2010 3:34AM
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fsscott
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herp derp

people grow up and can figure shit out, just because you're young when something happens doesn't mean to don't and can't know everything that you know about what happened.




Sep 11 2010 3:36AM
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skithebert
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hey dick, i dunno how old you are but if you're in elementary school there's no way you understand and comprehend what happened and why. you might have figured it out later but it's not the same as the immediate emotions. read that thread that was bumped from the day of 9/11. there was a surprising amount of clarity in that thread and it was clear it wasn't a bunch of 10 year olds. so fuck off
Sep 11 2010 3:42AM
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alvy.
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kindergarten or 1st grade. school was cancelled for the rest of the day
Sep 11 2010 3:57AM
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Balto
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3rd grade, teacher turned the news on and tried to explain it to us, i remember thinking wtf, why does this matter?
Sep 11 2010 4:46AM
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fsscott
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18. So I had no idea what was going on. And I agree, at that time it meant nothing to me, except for me wondering why my parents were crying.

But now you've brought emotions into the discussion, which is different from what I commented on in your original post. Immediate emotions are nothing more than just that, immediate emotions. They will make one jump to conclusions without thinking things through. Knowledge of what went on can be learned, but the emotions of the time can only be seen in the eyes of witnesses.
Sep 11 2010 4:47AM
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T-Holt
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Hey man, I had to console my friend the day the planes hit because his dad was on the top floor of the first tower and he was really afraid. I was in 4th grade. I'll admit I was numb at first from the shock of the whole situation, it didn't really sink in for a day or two, but I knew what was happening, it was scary, and really sad. I thought my uncle had died because he worked there, but thankfully he was sick that day (I'm so thankful for that). I saw the second plane hit from the roof of my house. I inhaled that smoke. You don't know the emotions that I felt that day. When some of my friends didn't come to school for like a week, I knew what happened. I didn't comprehend the full impact of it, especially not the political implications, but I felt it.

So why don't you think a little before you post.
Sep 11 2010 5:01AM
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A.Eberhard
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I was in grade 2 at the time, we went outside and it was a normal day. At the end of the day that was 3:00 somehow it got spread around that someone put a plane into a building. Then I got home and my mom had it on CNN and I just watched it replay over and over again.
Sep 11 2010 9:22AM
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nickyp
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I had just started my new Secondary School. First day of first year, I was 12 years old. I remember coming home, and BBC News 24 being on, and watching the first plane slam into the Tower. I had no conception at that point that what I was watching would change the world.
Sep 11 2010 9:31AM
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.AR6rider.
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I was in math class in 8th grade.  The teacher came in late and said that two planes had flown into the WTC.  I, being a total dumbass and having no idea what was going on, asked if there was an airport there.  My teacher broke down and started crying.  Once I figured out what happened I felt like total shit.
Sep 11 2010 9:37AM
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S.C
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I was watching spongebob before heading off to kindergarden and the program got interrupted by the news
Sep 11 2010 9:38AM
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mmmpoundcake
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1st grade grade right after snack got in saw the princible in my classroom and had one of those emotional talks for the whole math class
Sep 11 2010 9:42AM
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.frenchy
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i was in some younger grade.. RIP- we will never forget.
Sep 11 2010 9:48AM
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spruitm
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I was in religion class freshman year of high school.  The principal walked in the room and whispered something to the teacher and then he turned on the news.  It was right after the first plane hit so I saw everything happen after that.
What I remember most is seeing a reporter talking right when the first tower was falling and the camera guy saying run and they both started running and then he dropped the camera and you could see all the people running by and then the cloud of dust coming at you and covering everything
Sep 11 2010 9:51AM
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stoggieman
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i was in fourth grade i think, i went to a catholic grade school, there was a gas leak in our school so we had to move everyone from the school into the church, then our principle came into the church and told the whole school first through eighth grade all at once that the world trade centers had been attacked and that flight 93 at crashed about 15 minutes from where I live
Sep 11 2010 9:52AM
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Ski..4..Life
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im probably one of the few people that has no recollection of where i was on 9/11. couldn't tell you a single thing. it didn't really hit me until a loooong time after the date what had happened
Sep 11 2010 9:53AM
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Jpurd
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on like the second week of like kindergarden
Sep 11 2010 9:55AM
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207
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I was going to school. I was in first grade I think and all's i knew is that planes crashed
Sep 11 2010 9:55AM
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Lemuel
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5th grade. They didn't tell us anything until the towers actually collapsed. But before that teachers kept coming in and talking to my teacher so we didn't know what was going on. Kids started to get called out of school and shit.
Sep 11 2010 10:11AM
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No_Dub
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i was in 3rd grade. they told us that terrorists had blown up the WTC. pretty much straight forward. all the classes were called into the auditorium/gym area were we did a lockdown and the older kids watched the news on a tv. i got home and our house wasn't built yet so we were living inside our RV. i was so scared that NYC was going to get hit with a massive bomb and kill everyone in the city and it would destroy or new house with the shock wave.

i didnt know what was going on really and durring the days following, i tried to figure it out and i just couldnt picture the buildings not being there.
Sep 11 2010 10:11AM
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grilledsteezeyo
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1st grade, i was eating breakfast and i noticed everyone was glued to the tv. i asked what was happening and then saw the second tower go down. i remember having no idea what just happenned and how bad it was. then once i was at school all i remembered was my friends and i talking about how the explosion looked like star wars because we had no idea what just happened.
RIP to all those who lost their lives
Sep 11 2010 10:14AM
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Brenone
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second year of college walking into my international business class.
Sep 11 2010 10:16AM
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123ski
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I was in high school. My Canadian teacher wouldn't let us watch it on the news because she didn't 'care about american stuff''. Then our school had a bomb threat, so we had a lockdown. Then I remembered that my parents were flying out of New York City that day, and I got scared. Then I ran away from school and went home and got a hold of my dad and found out that my mom's plane had emergency landed in Detroit and that my dad's plane would not be taking off. Then my dad drove from Toronto to Detroit and picked up my mom, and then they drove home. I postponed the surgery I was going to have on my shattered finger on 9/12/01 because things were pretty crazy at that time.
Sep 11 2010 10:16AM
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flexpattern
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I was 12 just come home from highschool, heard it on the radio, then parents turned on the tv and it was all over it... saw the second plane hit and then the towers collapse, just couldn't believe it...
The only real experience that I have had of the terror/worry that americans must have felt on 9/11 was when the 7/7 bombings happened in london, much smaller scale but still very worrying, especially with parents and relatives/friends working/living in the capital that day. Totally sense of helplessness. It seems so difficult to imagine both of those attacks happening, both unimaginable acts of murder of totally innocent people. Human beings suck.
Sep 11 2010 10:19AM
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factory81
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9th grade

/CLAIM IM OLDER THAN MOST OF YOU YEAH CLAIMS ARE RETARDED


English class I think. I was monkeying around being a nuisance like I always was in school. But the teacher received word of it somehow. Somehow she received word before the 2nd plane hit because she stopped the class, and then we went outside to the hallways because they had t.v.'s located out there. From the hallways we sat and watched the second plane collide in to the world trade center.

Then I went on to an A+ class where the teacher said he didn't want to distract too much from class time, but he would leave the tv running (he had one in his classroom) but on mute, and we just continue to do our normal assignments and shit.

Then I don't remember the rest of the day...
Sep 11 2010 10:19AM
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ECB
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12 in high school? Where!
Sep 11 2010 10:20AM
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amo
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I was in 2nd grade. I didn't hear about it until my moms picked me up after school and told me.
Sep 11 2010 10:22AM
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Oh_So_Hyphy
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I was 6 years old, all i remember are my parents watching tv crying and then i saw the towers go down.
Sep 11 2010 10:27AM
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flexpattern
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in England/Scotland; "Highschool" is 11 - 18 usually... sorry for the confusion; different terminology from the US i guess! Dunno, i'm no expert on the US education policy...
Sep 11 2010 10:28AM
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Polar_Beer
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I was in 5th grade at the time, however I was in the hospital for some stomach problems. I remember just waking up and wanting to watch cartoons, and one of my nurses came in and told my parents to change the channel, they changed it to cnn and there was the report of a plane crashing into the WTC.

At the time I didn't really think much of it, just thought it was an accident or something but then when we saw the second plane hit it got really bad in the hospital because everyone was on alert and I can remember the only thing I wanted to do was turn the tv off and go back to sleep, hoping that it was only a dream.
Sep 11 2010 10:32AM
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ECB
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Naw, my roommate is from Scotland, thats why I was wondering, where you from?
Sep 11 2010 10:48AM
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Big5hifty
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i was in 3rd grade. my teachers tried not to mention it until the end of the day and they basically said that something very bad had happened and that we should talk to our parents about what we see on the news. we knew something was up when out the classroom door we saw teachers running room to room. i still remember the images of those planes crashing and buildings falling. prayers for all the families and friends of the victims.
Sep 11 2010 10:49AM
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skiskate
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I was in grade 6 at the time, in the morning at about 10 am our french teacher came in and asked if anybody had heard what had happened. Nobody knew for sure and I remember another student saying that pilots had been shot and planes crashed. I was the only kid in class who went home for lunch so I left at 11 30 to go home, and stayed glued to the tv for the full hour and fifteen minutes. My parents were at work too so I just remember sitting there with my dog watching the replay over and over and over again. When I went back to school nobody had really heard anything yet, and i remember telling them about it. Then they announced over the PA what was going on and we watched the news in the afternoon.

I remember everything that happened that night as well, its crazy how an event like that can entrench every detail of a day into your mind.

It is hard to imagine that one day changed the course of history over the past decade (almost) so much, like the war on terror, etc.
Sep 11 2010 10:56AM
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Steezyiott
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bush was reading my class a story...
Sep 11 2010 11:44AM
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Otter.
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3rd grade in ohio. no one knew what was going on until the teacher tried to explain it to a bunch of 8 year olds
Sep 11 2010 11:44AM
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the.hoffman
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I'm Canadian, so it didn't affect me as much as it probably affected most of you, but I was at school. I remember my mom coming to the school during recess to tell me to ignore any rumors about World War 3.
Sep 11 2010 11:47AM
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iSmokeweed
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3rd grade. i live in DC so it was a shit storm of security. all roads were closed, cops everywhere. i could see the smoke coming from the pentagon from my house. sadly i was too young to understand what happened.

i got home before the second tower was hit and saw it live on TV. it didnt really effect me because it seemed like special effects to my 8y/o mind. looking back at it i cant help feeling like shit for not understanding what happened on that day.


Sep 11 2010 11:48AM
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Petey.
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I was sitting in my 6th grade homeroom watching it on the tv with the rest of my class as the towers fell. I'm a junior in college now
Sep 11 2010 11:50AM
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THATS_STREET
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freshman in highschool. math class. i live on Long island. 45 minutes from Manhattan. when the announcement went out, it wasnt really clear what was going on at the time but about 6 or so kids in my class had parents that worked in the WTC and a few of them started crying hysterically it was really fucking weird. the whole thing didnt set in until i walked home after school and watched what had transpired on TV with my mom.
Sep 11 2010 11:50AM
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skeedle
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i was woken up by a phone call from a family friend going "turn on the tv and wake your mom now."
so i did. and i just sat there, at about 6am PST, for two hours, just watching. then i got to school and my first class was social studies, and we just sat there and watched live tv.
i was 14 at the time, living in whistler, BC, Canada.
and i feel bad for all those Canadians, who's teachers didn't let them watch it. as you know now, I am sure, it has affected our world in so many ways, and it's a shame they didn't teach you that then.
Sep 11 2010 11:56AM
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neutralzombie
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i was in recess, but then we had french class, and our teacher brought in a printed picture of the towers and told us what was going on.
Sep 11 2010 11:59AM
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j.scott..
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i was in grade 4 or 5 it think, and I remember watching the second plane hit live.
Sep 11 2010 12:00PM
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airic
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I was reading in my Psychology textbook that a massive study showed that the number of errors in a person's memory of what they were doing on 9/11 is almost the same as for an average day, but because the amygdala is more active in the formation of memories during shocking and emotionally charged experience, the subsequent "flashbulb" memories seem to be more vivid and rich in detail.
The results of this study don't really make much sense though, considering that if the title of this thread were "Where were you on 7/10/04" hardly anyone would be able to respond.
Sep 11 2010 12:12PM
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Gameboy
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In school, one of the teachers came in the class screaming! She told the story. Our stupid teacher made us draw it..
Sep 11 2010 12:15PM
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