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1. Issue · Sep 11, 2026

   Twenty-Five Years On (opens the original)

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   I’m still planning to leave Substack at some point when I can settle on a place to land off of here. But for now, this is the outlet I have. I was in Ms. Hansen’s third-hour chemistry class when Mr. Zarnott came over the school PA system to tell us. I remember it quite plainly. I remember being in Mr. Ellington’s fourth-hour social studies class where one of the few televisions in the school were at that time, and we watched both towers fall on live television. We didn’t know if there would be m

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