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plumtreeblossomWe all wandered home from work early that day -- no one could do any work. The CNN website had gone blank. There weren't as many news websites then. Stores were all closing early. Everything except the bars.
I didn't own a TV that year -- hadn't since I moved out of my parents house in the 80s. My roommate Laura and I watched in the laundromat, with the crowd of other urban gentrifiers who didn't own TVs. The screen on one side of the laundromat showed an English language station. The other side showed a Spanish station. Laundry still spun, in spite of everything.
I didn't own a TV that year -- hadn't since I moved out of my parents house in the 80s. My roommate Laura and I watched in the laundromat, with the crowd of other urban gentrifiers who didn't own TVs. The screen on one side of the laundromat showed an English language station. The other side showed a Spanish station. Laundry still spun, in spite of everything.