before the plague I was born after the Plague, but the people who lived through it remembered it with fear. "There used to be a lot more people," they'd say. "This town used to be filled with people. There were so many people that some of them had to sleep on the streets. Some of them lived in cars and drove from place to place. The streets were filled with cars at all hours. Stores stayed open through the night. The lights were on all night. There was so much going on, if you tried to keep up with it you'd never get any sleep, never have time to eat or take a bath. You were always bumping into people, in line at the store, getting to your seat at the movie, getting in and out of elevators. You'd see people once or twice a week, call them by name, say you liked their clothes or their hair. You never had time to stop and talk to all the people you knew. It went on like that for years and years, then people just started dying. It's a lot emptier now."
	location: Berkeley, California date: 1985 average rating: [not rated] your rating (0-10):