When she got home, she saw her mom sitting on the couch, just getting off of the phone.
Her mom told her nervously in Chinese that aliens were attacking.
“Are you sure you weren’t just watching a movie on TV?” she asked her mom.
Her mom insisted that it was real and that she and her friend both called each other to confirm it was on the news.
She later discovered that they had been watching “Independence Day”, and by not understanding English, they had their own Orson Welles experience.
When she told her mom, she said, “I knew that...”
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