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Maybe as the tournament goes on, and maybe in the other host cities — smaller, less recently scarred — there will be a greater sense of occasion. Maybe after Friday’s opener, there will be a collective calming of nerves.
Or maybe this is just how it’s going to be from now on.
It’s not nice to think so. We know we’ll have lost something important if football and everything beautiful it represents is cast in a permanent shadow. So we remind ourselves of all the bromides against fear, that changing our lives and how we choose to live them is what terrorists want, that the odds of being caught in an attack are infinitely small, that for every bomb that goes off there are dozens of plots that are foiled.
In the end, for all our preparations and statistics, right now all any of us here has is hope. Hope that nothing bad happens, and if it does, that it is not as bad as it might have been, and that if it happens to us, we turned left instead of right, or we caught the train before or after, or we were standing at a slightly different spot at a slightly different time. Hope that physics and circumstance somehow spare us. Hope that the sun comes out and beats back the floods and we see something of our old self surface again, coming up for air.
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