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Item Text: I was waiting for my son, who according to the BAA text message had just finished the race. I was standing next to a woman and her young daughter. After the blasts I heard her comment that they must be setting off fireworks. I looked at her and said, they dont do fireworks at the Marathon. Then we saw the smoke. Some of the police near the Hancock Tower started running towards the medical tent. It seamed like the line of runners on Boylston were moving any faster, bu then that lined stopped. The yellow jacket security started to yell, "clear the street, clear the street" as they opened the barriers across St James and allowed emergency vehicles to enter. Then it got earily quiet, many people stared at each or tried to check their phones. I called me wife and said "something really bad has happened, find out what is going on" It took a few minutes for her to text a message back to me. Then my son arrived and we headed to the car. As we walked down Stuart some people were crying, some didn't seem to realize what had happened. We watched the dozens of ambulances gather on Huntington in front of the Marriott by Shaws and decided it was best that we should head home to West Roxbury.
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This story was collected by the Boston Globe in the days immediately following the Boston Marathon Bombing. GlobeLab collected these anonymous stories on the Boston.com website and donated them to the Our Marathon Archive. We are grateful for this contribution, which gives insight into how Bostonians and visitors to the city understood the bombing events in their immediate aftermath.
