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I was born on the 3 rd of June, 1977. It was a Friday, although I was obviously unaware of that at the time. There were many things I would not have been aware of, like Queen Elizabeth’s Silver Jubilee, the first democratic election in Spain after years of dictatorship, and the untimely death of Elvis Presley. The first Star Wars film was released that year, and NASA launched its Voyager spacecraft, which would help us to learn more about our solar system. I would spend the next two decades learning about more earthly pursuits, however. I played computer games and watched MTV, fairly typical of someone from Generation X. Having been born in the latter part of the 20 th century, I eagerly awaited the beginning of the next century – the new millennium. As midnight approached on the 31 st of December, 1999, I joined a crowd of revellers gathered around the clock tower in the market town of Ormskirk, in the north of England. I spent the rest of the night having drunken conversations w...