![]() ![]() North and Saint West's late grandfather had not yet read his friend's letter to the world: "Don't feel sorry for me," attorney Robert Kardashian said to flashing bulbs. This is one-way pager, peak Gen X quarter-life crisis time - and it wasn't called a quarter-life crisis back then. Mandela is free, and Margaret Thatcher is out. The Berlin Wall? Buzz-sawed, climbed over and kicked through. ![]() There's no Facebook - barely a decent chat room to flirt in. There are no fingerprint scanners at ballparks. In 1991, people are jittery, but no one stands in line in bare feet at airports. If you were alive - if you were over the age of 5 - you must make yourself remember the time. In 1991, ground zero was just downtown Manhattan. This was before three New York firefighters raised a star-spangled banner amid the sooty rubble of ground zero. A full decade before the United States of America came to a brief but full stop - 2,977 people dead and more than 6,000 injured in three states. This is before a young married couple in combat gear killed 14 at a holiday party in San Bernardino. Before 18 people were shot in an Arizona parking lot, along with a congresswoman who took a bullet in the back of the head. ![]() Before a Colorado theater was tear-gassed and shot up as The Dark Knight Rises began. Way before Connecticut elementary school classrooms in Newtown were strewn with bullets. ![]() Before backpacks stuffed with pressure cookers and ball bearings blew limbs from people at the Boston Marathon. This is before 111 individuals were injured by a bomb made of nails and screws at the Atlanta Olympics. Before six people died in the World Trade Center bombing. ![]()
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