Nick, I think it has nothing to do with age, more to do with life
experience. I was born into an air raid, so am always, at some level,
expecting death from the skies. My first five years were spent at war.
What with that, getting caught in Tiananmen Square, and spending a lot
of professional time thinking up worst-case scenarios, 9/11 shocked
but didn't surprise me, if you know what I mean. So this I could view
with equanimity.
I tell you, it wasn't always thus. I couldn't hear a siren--ambulance,
police, fire--for my first twenty years without the hair standing up
on the back of my neck.
P.
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