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software package that would make certain that my system would survive the rollover. They failed with me but they got their piece of the action. The doomsaye.rs and soothsayers and prognosticators had reissued their end-of-theworld barrage and call for donations and purchases. The news flashers had smothered us with Y2K-isms and -ishes and cautions and fears, but little ill came to pass.
We all watched though, billions of us, as our Earth completed its 1999th rotation around the sun anni domini nostri Jesu Christi (in the year of our Lord Jesus Christ) according to the Gregorian revision of the Julian calendar. Whether Christian or Jew, Muslim or Hindu, Buddhist or Vodun, we all watched as one and, seemingly, ignored the Y2K threats and our too often violent natures to welcome, most peacefully, this year 2000. That is the story.
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