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I'm Anne Strain Champs.

What is it like to stand in the path of a total eclipse?

So here I am on this tropical beach, and then all of a sudden, weird things started to happen.

David Barron, he's the author of American Eclipse.

I noticed that daylight looks off and a cool wind kicks up.

Colors were strange.

Shadows had become incredibly sharp,

like someone had turned up the contrast knob on TV.

And then all of a sudden,

the lights went out.

And I looked up in the sky, and I felt like I had suddenly been transported

to another planet.

There was this object I had never seen before. It looked like a wreath woven from tinsel. It just shimmered out there in space.

And the planets, because I could see Mercury and Venus and Jupiter all lined up around the Sun.

And it made me feel both like an insignificant speck,

but it also made me feel incredibly empowered.

Like I as an individual am nothing.

But I'm part of something enormous and grand.

It placed me in the universe in a permanent way.

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