Rewinding to Sunday 14 September 1997…

Sunday · Reading, England, United Kingdom

Dominic, you arrived on 14 September 1997 in Reading.

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01The weather outside

A high of 18°C in Reading.

18°C/ 64°F high

Low of 6°C · dry · wind up to 14 mph

The sun rose at 06:37 and set at 19:20 — 12h 44m of daylight.

02The sky that night

A waxing gibbous watched over you.

94% lit · 12.5 days into its cycle

Looking up from Reading that evening, you could have spotted Jupiter and Saturn without a telescope.

It was autumn in your half of the world.

The Moon was 223,751 miles away — closer than usual.

03On every radio

The chart-topper that week: “Honey”

by Mariah Carey — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 3 weeks, taking over from “Mo Money Mo Problems”.

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04What a pound bought

Your first receipt.

GENERAL STORE

PRICES IN UNITED KINGDOM · 1997-09-14

ITEM1997TODAYSliced white loaf800 g£0.52£1.44Litre of milkfresh£0.62£1.17Kilo of flourwheat£0.40£0.57Kilo of potatoesnew, loose£0.54£1.58Kilo of bananas1 kg£1.02£1.05Kilo of sugarwhite£0.76£1.18Kilo of chickenwhole£2.40£3.87

Measured shop prices

Prices: Office for National Statistics (UK)

05Your life in numbers

Since that day, you have lived…

0

seconds

and counting, right now

0

heartbeats

at a resting average of 80 a minute

0

breaths

give or take a few yawns

0

sunrises

1,521 weeks of them

0

full moons

have risen since your first night

0.00B

miles traveled

29 laps around the Sun

06Born under

A Sunday's child, under Virgo.

Star sign

Virgo

Earth sign

Chinese zodiac

Ox

Fire Ox

Birthstone

Sapphire

for your month

Birth flower

Aster

for your month

Generation

Generation Z

1997–2012

Day of the week

Sunday

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