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A few weeks later, my family and I drive to PeñaBoulevard, the throat of DIA, for a trip east to visitour past. Even though it’s night, the moonlightbounces off the snow and makes the city brighterthan hours before. We pass cluster of buildingsand I do a double-take. Was that—no, it couldn’tbe. There’s no way a random business park has thesame logo as Abstergo Industries. Has that watertower always been there? Maybe Ubisoft borrowedideas from the present, too.2012, the year Assassin’s Creed takes place, cameand went without any excitement. The blue mustangstatue with demonic orange eye outside theairport that killed its own creator didn’t evenclaim another life. It’s not that I was hoping foran incident to occur, it’s just that I was curious.I didn’t want the world to end from the MayanApocalypse, mainly because it would mean that Ispent my whole life in school, but surely I wasn’tthe only one wondering if something would happen.* * *I pop Left 4 Dead into the Xbox 360 after school whilemy friends all grab a controller off of the coffeetable. We start a new campaign for probably thesixth time. A few levels in, the excited profanitiesshouted at every encountered Witch or Tank settledown as the game is paused for bathroom break.I’m crouched behind an abandoned car staring atthe license plate for a couple minutes.Even though the screen is grayand blurred, I recognize thestripes. Blue. White. Yellow.Pennsylvania.Wait, that’s where we are? My old home?I’m the one person in the room who has beento The Keystone State, let alone live there for 15

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