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  The day that I was born
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  My father, Henry Javier Arredondo Jr., was deployed into the Army for almost 10 years.
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  Two students go on a shooting rampage in Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. They kill 12 students, 1 teacher and themselves.
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  My baby cousin, Marcus Rivera, was killed by a driver two weeks after my little brother, Alexander James Arredondo, was born.
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  The World Trade Center was collapsed on September 11, 2001 by two terrorist planes.
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  A mass suicide in which 39 members of a "Heaven's Gate Cult" in California killed themselves thinking they would be sent up to a spaceship behind the passing Hale Bopp comet