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2003-11-03

I was in Kilwinning in Scotland, I lived in a residential unit for learning disabled adults in Stevenston, also in Scotland.I had to go out to get a birthday present for my ex-choir-mistress, the Unit Manager supported me to go. We heard about the attacks while in the cash and carry in Kilwinning but I just kind of laughed them off thinking someone was playing a sick joke. When We got home, it was an entirely different story. All the staff except for one were sitting in Lounge 1 with their eyes glued to the television. I sat and watched too, I wasn't the only service user to watch, there were three others. I still didn't believe what was happening until I went to my bedroom and put the radio on, my usual radio Station was doing quarter of an hour apart news broadcasts, that was when I realised it was all happening, the pictures on television were too surreal to believe...
The next thing I did was ask to call my gran as my mother works in the middle East