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ProfessorGAC

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31. I'll Sign On

Mon Apr 10, 2017, 06:52 AM

Apr 2017

I was 7 at the time. 2nd grade. I remember it really well too. I was home sick that day and my mom was on the phone with her friend, waiting for "As The World Turns" to come on. It started and she was telling her friend she had to go because her show was starting.

She was not yet in the room when they broke in with the news bulletin. She asked me what they just said and i told her the president was shot. She bolted into the room and we sat there for the next few hours watching whatever wasn't in commercial.

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