# 1999

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Podcast: [Don't You Dare To Think Out Loud!](https://stenobird.com/podcast/don-t-you-dare-to-think-out-loud-6458124)
Published: 2024-09-15T20:00:10+00:00
Episode link: https://javiertruben.substack.com/p/1999
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I don’t believe this record can be broken, but who knows? All it takes is a madman to allow American missiles to be launched at Russia from Ukraine, similar to the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962. Yet the final year of the last century still holds the record. Plus, in my lifetime, I won’t witness another turn of the millennium. But it turns out that yesterday, I received the news of the passing of a friend who suffered a heart attack. Astrid was two years younger than me. In 1999, she used to host gatherings at her old and somewhat ramshackle townhouse, where my old friends and I would smoke weed in front of a wood stove until we were pretty baked. And we split a gut laughing over the stupidest things and have soft drinks to avoid the cotton mouth. When the weather was nice, we would go up to the large terrace to cook Argentinean asado, cut into slices that we slowly ate for almost six hours, paired with red wine, and enjoyed it, if anything, along with more joints. We often watched wonderful sunsets, which, with such a buzz, sometimes had a suspicious crimson splendor. I used to live alone on Zeno Hill at that time, in a small studio with a single barred window because it was on the first floor. Sometimes, the girls who came home from school would greet me while I was writing on my desktop computer. When the sun went down and I wanted to get some fresh air after being confined in that hideout for so long, I used to go to Astrid's to meet my friends, much like someone going to a pub. That year was my annus mirabilis. In March, I penned Gold Plated , after hesitating for long as to whether to set it during the Srebrenica massacre in July 1995, and highlighting the appalling behavior of the Dutch troops who allowed the Serbian general Ratko Mladić to pass in exchang…

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