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The Year We'll Forget

Collective amnesia may be too strong of a force

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Mathew Preston
Dec 31, 2020
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The end of 2020 is the end of a meme – the year that was a literal dumpster fire. But wasn’t 2019 the year of the dumpster fire? Notre Dame burned down, and a massive shooting in New Zealand rocked our world. Or was it 2018, the year of #metoo and John McCain’s death, what seemed to everyone at the …

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