AP Essay: Apocalypse not now - and how we saw it AP Essay: Apocalypse not now - and how we saw it

NEW YORK — Where were you on the day the world didn't end?

Did you, like many thousands of others, turn to a social network and confess to the world something you had kept hidden? Did you laugh it off and make jokes about not having to go to work Monday? Did you pick your favorite end-times pop song and blast it on the car stereo?

Did you maybe scoff a little while wondering — just a teensy bit, in a tiny place in the very back of your head — what you might do if Saturday were indeed your final day on the planet?

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