One of the first two years of the 1990s.

The local high school basketball team was running off to the state championship game.

So, the school dredges all the kids out to the front of Arthur H Smith Elementary School, to cheer a procession pass by.

I’m apathetic. To the best of my awareness, I don’t think too many others in the class really care. Jaded, are we? Nay. Other priorities, I say.

Standing next to me, another kid– who I don’t remember at all, asks me “So, why are we out here?”

For whatever reason, I shrug “dunno.”

He starts chanting “Go George Bush! Go George Bush!”

I fancy this bit of disconnection. So, I join in.

“Go George Bush! Go George Bush!”

My teacher looks at us, and shakes her head.

The rest is history. George Bush went on to lose his next election. The basketball team lost (that 2-year dynasty ended). The entire earth shifted.

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