We're still on page 2,004, so I'll share my abiding memory of the year 2004...
2004 was the year my mother died. She was 82 years old at the time.
She would often tell us when we were kids that a fortune teller had told her she would live to be 82, and she died a few weeks after her 82nd birthday. Whilst I don't really have much faith in fortune tellers, I think that in my mam's case that's what enabled her to actually live to that age. She had not been in very good health for years, and we thought we were losing her on a number of occasions. I suspect that prophecy, given to her when she was just a child herself, kept her going a good bit longer than she would have done otherwise.