World Cup Italia 90 would be my first big one. It was Ireland's first time in the tournament and the whole country seemed to be in festival mode.
After that, it would've been the beginning of the Gulf War. My dad called me downstairs one night to show me that war had just begun on TV. I would've been 10 at the time. I watched for a bit, but it didn't mean much to me. I collected stamps at the time, and a few months later I thought it was the coolest thing when I got an Iraqi stamp of Saddam Hussein. I also had a Free Kuwait badge that I also thought was cool, but really I had no idea what any of it meant.
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"We are no longer living. We are empty of substance, and our head devours us. Our ancestors were more alive. Nothing separated them from themselves."
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