[JMarchand1981]

My card has a lot of feelings attached to it. And it has a story.

July 22nd, 2011. That date will stay with for a long time, probably for many people. The trained eye should see that I have a flag as avatar - the Swedish flag, I am born and raised here. On the above mentioned date I left work early. I made it home and sat down just to hear the phone ring. I got up, answered, and was greeted by an old university friend. She didn't say much, just 'Turn on the TV'. We hadn't talked for four months, that was all she said.

All channels showed the same thing. Some one had set off a bomb in downtown Oslo. Oslo is the capital of Norway, a neighboring country to Sweden, with close bonds to each other. I'd lived there while studying my master degree, I'd worked there. 50,000 Swedish young Swedes move there to get their first job and earn money. I have friends there to this day.

The bomb was not all. What followed an hour later was that some one was shooting on an island a few hours from Oslo. Someone had maneuvered the police to the city center, and then went to the Norwegian Socialist party's summer camp for teens, and created a massacre. More than 80 teenagers died that day, from one man's act of terror.

I remember I sat quiet infront of the tv. I hadn't had that feeling since I was jn the military, and came back from a day of studying, to turn on the tv and see a plane crash into the World Trade Center.

The more I saw, the more I cried. At 11pm I was so tired from all the stress I knew I had to do something. On the day of 9/11 I put on my trainers and ran. That was the only thing I could think of on this day. I put on all of my gear, but couldn't find my watch. I searched all over the apartment. At last I pulled out a drawer from underneath the bed, and there was my watch. But, also a pack of 2010/11 Panini Donruss. I knew I had it., I'd saved it for a rainy day.

This was a rainy day.

I opened it. This was the second card in the deck.




This is the best card I've ever pulled. Number 3/5, Carmelo Anthony Auto. It would've been a nice card to have, If it hadn't been for the story I just told you. But I don't know if I want to keep it because if it. Or if I should sell it and try to forget...something.

Anyway. That's the card. Thank you for reading.

A Great pull on a somber day. I remember that day. I was working with an ER surgeon who is from Norway. I remember that he was heading to perform on a patient and caught wind of the news. The surgery had to go on. Talk about performing a surgery with a heavy heart.