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: Re: "That's when" vs "That was when." Should I use the former or the latter in a story written in first-person past tense? Example: My heart started to race, my adrenaline to spike, and that's

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I would always use "that was," because to my ear, "that's" always implies "that is," and your sentence is in the past tense.

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