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11.3.2016
Significant thing/event from your childhood
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Ugh. Definitely a hard one.
I'm gonna do them both since they're different.
A significant thing from my childhood has to be my pet crow named Black Jack (named after Black Beauty, of course).
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My father rescued him when he fell out of his nest and our neighbors tried to squash him with a shovel. Turns out, crows make amazing pets! They're clean and affectionate and love to be scratched around the neck. They also have blue eyelids. And they steal things. Black Jack was a pretty big deal to me. I remember him very clearly.
A significant event from my childhood would have to be 9/11. (Does that count?)
We lived close to NYC, and I saw the second tower fall from the ridgeline near my house. I know we weren't near the epicenter, so it sounds cheap, but as a kid, even though I didn't fully understand what was happening, it was the first time I realized we weren't safe. And that people could die horribly and not just grow old. The gravity of it messed me up for awhile.
