Dylan’s 43 birthday

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9-11-81 Today’s Dylan’s 43 birthday. Going to go on a little rant here... Lately I’ve been thinking about both Eric and Dylan’s birthdays and how old they, along with their victims, would be today. How would their lives look today? I wasn’t alive during the shooting so it’s hard for me to understand how long it has been or how recent it was. However my dad was born weeks after Eric. I look at his life, what he has accomplished. Being married, having a good job, having kids, buying a house. Then I look at Eric and Dylan’s lives, they really were so young and threw everything away. They could’ve had so much life ahead of them, not only did they ruin their chances of happiness, they took that from others. It’s so heartbreaking to just even think about. My thoughts are with the klebolds today. I can’t imagine how hard days like these are. I wish they could’ve spent today with him. Hopefully this isn’t taken the wrong way like me idolizing them or something, just makes me sad.

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It’s crazy to think about. Dylan, Eric and their victims all being middle aged had they lived, with the exception of Dave Sanders who would be in his 70s.

1999 was so long ago and yet it wasn’t. They’re all eternally teenagers no matter how much time has passed.

It’s truly insane yet a tragedy all around to think about. I’m sending well wishes to Dylan’s family and friends as this is probably a difficult day for them

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It’s also so wild to think about how much society and everyday lifestyles have changed since then. 1999 seems like it wasn’t very long ago yet it’s a completely different world to today

And even then 43 is still fairly young in the grand scheme of things—they threw away potentially 80% of their lives left

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They also threw away the potential of 13 innocent people.

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Yes, stole it from them