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Where Were You When...

Where were you when ...Hank Aaron hit his 715th home run? ...Steve Jobs introduced the first iPhone? ...Felix Baumgartner jumped from 39km in space and parachuted to Earth while televising it? Mmm...soda! My wife and I have had this long-standing debate about whether drinks with Aspartame should be consumed.  She says no, but I say yes because I don't want the added sugar since I'm overweight as it is.  (Nevermind the options of not consuming the drink in the first place because then I'd drink beer instead and that's no better for my waistline.)  So once while consuming one of my favorite beverages - San Pellegrino Limonata - I read the list of ingredients to see which type of sweetener was present.  It was sugar.  I lost. "Remember when there was this huge backlash about High Fructose Corn Syrup?" I asked her, in hopes of avoiding discussing the fact that I was drinking something with sugar in it.  At that point, we both acknowledged that during