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I was 14 at the time. Living on the other side of the world, it happened at around 8 PM and we pretty much got to see the whole thing live. I remember that my reaction wasn't of horror, but rather of disbelief. I must have been looking at the TV with a sort of bemused expression on my face, as though I was watching a movie or a video game, because I couldn't believe that it was real. By the time I went to bed that night I had internalized that it was, but it still kind of bothers me even today that I didn't have a more visceral reaction to it. I had an aunt that worked at an office there, except she called in sick to work that day, and I remember our whole family being relieved when we got word that she was safe. I noticed that CNN started using a news ticker at the bottom, and for some reason the image of Greta van Susteren doing the news has stuck with me. I kept thinking that this 24/7 news with the ticker at the bottom was going to go away after a couple weeks/months, but it never really did. Finally, my country started implementing strict bag checks whenever you go to a public place or heavily trafficked establishment. That was another thing that I figured would go away eventually, but again it never did. It still throws me for a bit of a loop whenever I travel to another country when I can walk into a mall without getting frisked by a guard.
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