got to chat with one of my students yesterday. We were talking about changes, and the past, and I mentioned 'pre 2008'. He said, 'I was old enough to know that bad things were happening' in 2008 'but that's a lot longer ago for me than it is for you' (he was born in 2003).

'Yeah', I said. 'You experienced it down to the bone, like little kids do'.

'I think so. For me, that was the background. Before that is history'.

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