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A man in a hotel witnesses some smoke on his television shot from a news copter flying quite high above the town below, above a school, where the schoolchildren of Ms. Appleby’s class turn in their papers, but clamor to see a woman on the side of the road, who kept her eyes on the road, but crashed anyway. The woman was calling her husband- you couldn’t see this from the helicopter- but John, her husband, was on vacation in Hawaii and will have to return to his children, who last told him of their combined A+ in a project written about the dangers of cell phone use on the road, done for their teacher, Ms. Appleby. John of the hotel hangs up his phone, and sighs.
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Oct 26, 2011
Oct 26, 2011 at 5:01 PM UTC
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A man in a hotel witnesses some smoke on his television shot from a news copter flying quite high above the town below, above a school, where the schoolchildren of Ms. Appleby’s class turn in their papers, but clamor to see a woman on the side of the road, who kept her eyes on the road, but crashed anyway. The woman was calling her husband- you couldn’t see this from the helicopter- but John, her husband, was on vacation in Hawaii and will have to return to his children, who last told him of their combined A+ in a project written about the dangers of cell phone use on the road, done for their teacher, Ms. Appleby. John of the hotel hangs up his phone, and sighs.
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Oct 26, 2011
Oct 26, 2011 at 5:01 PM UTC
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