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My Super First Day

I can’t say for sure when my super first day was. I’ve probably had my super power – if you can call it that – all my life.

The day I saw “10191987” spelled out in my bowl of Cheerios, however, was the day I knew I was different.

Okay, to be accurate, October 19, 1987 was the day I knew I was different. I saw “10191987” about a week or so before Black Monday, but it wasn’t until the crash that I realized what it meant.

Other numbers followed. Could be dates, could be just numbers. Sometimes good, sometimes bad. Always important. Never actionable.

11091989
5335
08021990
12251990
07252000
2

I’ve seen these numbers in rain drops on windows, in fields, in Christmas tree lights.

Once I figured out what I was seeing, I spent a lot of years trying to predict the importance of the numbers. I built spreadsheets and maps, read about numerology and cryptography, scoured every news source I could find. I never did come close to predicting anything.

After a while, I gave up. Too many possibilities, too many moving pieces.

And there’s the problem: I know ahead of time some key piece to a world-changing event, but I never know what the event will be. I can’t help avoid catastrophes; I can only verify my prediction after the fact. Hardly something to write home about.

I started ignoring the numbers. I avoided news in any format I could. No TV, no web, no print. I was happier living in ignorance and denial. Things got better for a while.

So, why I am writing about all of this now? Because recently I started seeing the same number, over and over: 10102010.

This is the first number that keeps repeating itself. I believe it’s important, perhaps the most important number I’ve ever seen. And I have no idea what’s going to happen on that date.

But maybe you do…

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