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I'm a Vietnamese cis woman born and currently living in the U.S. You may know me from Sandwich, from Twitter or Mastodon (same username), or on Twitch as Sharkaeopteryx. I do not have a Discord or Bluesky account.

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JASON: Man, it's funny how you don't remember something so obvious. There's just too much to remember.

LORI: Oh, absolutely! I mean, it's thousands of years! You can only remember so much. OK, embarrassing story time.

EMILY: Story time! OK, OK, hold on. Story time is very important around here. Let me put on some coffee.

JASON: Em, I got it! Don't get up.

EMILY: Thank you, baby.

EMILY: OK. So.

LORI: So ... this would have been in the 13,500s. Because, yes, I was apartment-shopping in Seattle. So sometime around then. I was single at the time, so I was just looking for a one-bedroom. But like a real one-bedroom, you know how landlords are always listing studio apartments as one-bedrooms.

EMILY: Ohh yes.

LORI: That's a whole other situation. Anyway, I see the place and I'm like, this is perfect. Beautiful bay windows, washer and dryer in the building, tall ceilings, exposed brick, everything. It's everything I want, it's just perfect. So I sign the lease right there on the spot, because it's like it's just perfect for me. It's literally everything I'm looking for in an apartment.

LORI: Well. This is, like, a month after I moved in. I was doing the dishes, and then I just froze. And I realized

LAUGHTER: laughter

LORI: I realized I had lived there before!

LAUGHTER: laughter

EMILY: Oh no! Oh my God! When?

LORI: I don't know, way way back-- a really long time ago. You know, actually, I went back and looked it up. I'd lived there for two years back in 7174. And I realized I'd arranged the furniture pretty much the same way and everything. Oh God, it was so weird.

LORI: And you know what was even weirder, was when I went back and looked up my old photos from when I lived there before. It was unreal, seeing myself in the same living room from 6,000 years ago. It was like looking like a ghost. I couldn't decide whether it was more scary or funny, because obviously, you looked at my wardrobe and it was clear, I had some serious 7100s going on.

EMILY: Tell me you were wearing a snap bracelet.

LORI: Oh yeah. Ohhhh yeah. I had like five on one arm, skinny jeans, bowling shoes. It was like taking a time machine back to the 7170s.

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