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On This Day, 11 years ago, I was laying in bed as a college freshman and awoke to my mom calling me telling me to turn on the TV. I had a TV, but not cable, so all I could see was fuzzy news coverage of the events. My roommate wanted me to turn it off because it was 6am, but I was glued. Classes were canceled and I couldn't take my eyes off of the TV. Eventually, I got out of bed and went to the Student Union Building to be around other students and feel that sense of community that is so truly important in times like these.

My mom and I talk a lot about the anxiety issues I had that year of school and I think a lot of it was because of the 9.11 events and my quasi-addiction to the news. I would watch TV for 6+ hours a day - all news coverage, every day. It was a bit much and definitely rattled me.

On the anniversary of this day, every year, I wake up early and watch the Today show re-run of the coverage. This morning, it was 4 hours of coverage that I relived. It's just amazing how - as it all was unfolding -  so little information was known at the time and the magnitude of the events weren't comprehensible. It just brings me back to all of those emotions and sadness I felt for everyone there - and especially the surrealness of it all. Always and today - those families are on my mind and in my thoughts and prayers.

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On a lighter note, On This Day 5 years ago, I got a phone call that changed my life! It all started here at an Incubus concert with my dear friends Casey and Kristin. We were talking about how they could hook me up with one of their friends, so Casey flipped open his cell phone (I am pretty positive it actually was a flip phone), and scanned his contact list and luckily the first person on his list was Andrew! :) Casey texted Andrew about me and Andrew said he'd call me.

So, on September 11, 2007 - I got a phone call from Andrew. We talked for about a half hour - discussed our jobs, our mutual friends, and learned that we actually lived in the same neighborhood just a few streets away! We made plans to meet later in the week and so our story began.

More on our first blind date later this week!