“It Was There For a Decade! Can You Believe It?! A Decade!!!”

Imagine being six, not yet a decade old, and knowing that something has been around longer than you’ve been alive. A decade is unfathomably long to her—the equivalent of eighty years for me. To me, a decade is a bit less than a fifth of my life. It doesn’t feel so far off today from 2013, when Obama was president and Lorde released “Royals”…. Maybe it does. Maybe it’s forever. Can you believe it?

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