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The Challenger 1986
Some of you may be too young to remember.
Others will remember exactly where you were.
Do you remember where you were when the Challenger shuttle exploded in 1986?
I was alone in my apartment in Japan, practicing picking up popcorn with chopsticks. I remember concentrating so hard on not dropping it, while the television played in the background. It was all in Japanese, so I wasn’t fully following it.
Then I saw it.
An explosion on the screen.
I didn’t understand the words, but I understood something terrible had happened. I dropped everything and ran to my agent’s house.
“Gloria, what happened? What is going on?” I kept asking.
Soon the other models arrived, and we all gathered around the television together — confused, quiet, and heartbroken.
In the video I created, I placed a friend beside me. But the truth is, I was alone at first. That’s how memory works sometimes — we recreate it, soften it, make it survivable.
History marks the world in big ways.
But memoir remembers the small details — popcorn, chopsticks, a language you don’t understand, and the feeling in your chest when everything shifts.
If you remember that day, where were you?
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