Monday, September 12, 2022

Time Warp

Carlos Alcaraz won the US Open tennis tournament on September 11, 2022. He wasn’t born on September 11, 2001. He’s nineteen years old.


From a nineteen-year-old’s perspective, the September 11 attacks were historical events, like Pearl Harbor or The Alamo.



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