I pulled up my phone. #AmericanPie was trending globally. Thousands of people were reporting the same thing: every station, every streaming auto-play, every grocery store Muzak system—all playing Don McLean's 1971 epic back-to-back-to-back.

I turned the radio back on. Static.

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what?

I fumbled for the clock radio on my nightstand. Static hissed for a second, then that familiar piano intro cut through.

yeah. weird.

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