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Item Text: After the Sox game, my college roommate and I headed over to Boylston as we always do to cheer on the runners. We were on our way to Whiskeys, which means we had to circumvent the finish line, when we walked by the Towne and saw a couple of available seats right by the windows overlooking the runners (strange they were open). We decided to grab a beer there. Within 10 minutes, sitting on the windowsill I felt the concussion of the first explosion and asked my friend "Did you feel that?" I leaned out the window to look down towards the finishline and saw the second explosion. Confusion ensued amongst the masses and the tide quickly changed on the foot traffic with everyone slowly...and then quickly running in the opposite direction. After a couple of minutes of procession, BPD began evacuating and we made our way up the Comm Ave mall to the Common, avoiding every trashcan, manhole cover, and sewer as we walked. Had those seats at the Towne not been visible as we walked by...the timing would have put us very, very close to the bombing sites, and this continues to play over and over in my mind.
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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.
