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Personal Narrative: A Day At The Boston Marathon
“Breaking News; Two powerful bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday afternoon, killing three people, and injuring more than 100” said the news reporter. This was life changing. I was in fifth grade at the time, on April vacation.
This was life changing to me because for the first time I was able to see how violent some people can be. I now saw that some people will kill and harm innocent people just because they want to, with no intention of revenge. When I saw this, I thought; there is nothing stopping someone from bombing Rhode Island or near my house and harming someone in my family. I remember hugging my mom and asking her if that would happen and she said “No one is going to bomb Rhode Island.” Another
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