Or: what happened?
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Was it the week-zero start that had the schedule reach its halfway point in September, or the fact that the Irish had only four games left to play on October 15th? Was it the roller-coaster emotional ride of the season and several games within it? Was it, perhaps, simply a product of this season coinciding with my 30th birthday and thus the realization that I am, while not old, certainly across that nebulous Rubicon separating “young adulthood” from regular, no-qualifiers adulthood and thus experiencing the faster passage of time that is an inevitable product of aging itself?