Jan. 6, 2021, was supposed to be both a historical and a procedural day in Congress.

Although he didn’t, they did.

“Then I realized that it’s too late.

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That it’s too late for me to get into the closet.

Where is she?'

And I just thought to myself ‘They got inside.'”

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“I thought this was the moment where everything was over,” she said.

“And the weird thing about moments like these is that you lose all sense of time.

It felt like my brain was able to have so many thoughts …

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I mean, I thought I was going to die.”

She then said that her thoughts became spiritual.

“I had fulfilled my purpose.”

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“I was like, ‘Can I help you?

What are you looking for?’