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I want to go with 2008. The dot-com bubble's effects were still rippling through the country in the form of Enron's massive fraud, and it resulted in an economic crash that was touted as the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression. The post-9/11 mindset had been entrenched in the culture for seven years at this point, though if nothing else the scars were beginning to heal. It was a momentous year with Barack Obama's election as the President, which I genuinely regard as one of the higher points of the 2000's after the shit show that was George W Bush - but for my 13 year old chud ass over in Australia, thousands of miles across the ocean, the world had never felt more uncertain.

2008 has been the only year in my entire life that feels like it ended on a cliffhanger. 2009 could have destroyed everything I ever knew - if our government didn't pull some sick maneuvers to get us out of the GFC, my family could have been one of the lower income families who would have really suffered from a financial crash. There was a new president, but he was unproven - could he fix everything, or were things destined to spiral further out of control? We're still at war in the Middle East, how are we gonna get out of that?

I'm sure that there have been worse years in American history for human suffering, but in my lifetime, 2008 was the year that felt like everything hung in the balance. For a lot of people, that might have been 2001 - but I was 6 years old and I didn't really grasp the reality of the situation until I was older. I was cognisant in 2008, and for all I know, everything was going to go down the shitter.
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And I am done with my graceless heart, so tonight I'm gonna cut it out and then restart
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