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parades and fun times the carnival of lights spectacular the festivities everyone engrossed by the sights and sounds cheering clapping the rowdy crowd lapping up the atmosphere a celebration the day after spoiled besmirched in tones of dolefulness the people heavy of shoulder the weight appropriated in tears manifold and event can turn quickly into sad seas of sorrow television stations radio air waves transmitted the horrific news a terrorist cell had struck in a city locale fragments of body parts spread on the sidewalk smoke and the smell of wickedness did pervade the street scape after yesterday's festival New York's collective psychology did alter suddenly the change did come in terrors inglorious atrocity
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Oct 13, 2014
Oct 13, 2014 at 8:28 PM UTC
After Yesterday
parades and fun times the carnival of lights spectacular the festivities everyone engrossed by the sights and sounds cheering clapping the rowdy crowd lapping up the atmosphere a celebration the day after spoiled besmirched in tones of dolefulness the people heavy of shoulder the weight appropriated in tears manifold and event can turn quickly into sad seas of sorrow television stations radio air waves transmitted the horrific news a terrorist cell had struck in a city locale fragments of body parts spread on the sidewalk smoke and the smell of wickedness did pervade the street scape after yesterday's festival New York's collective psychology did alter suddenly the change did come in terrors inglorious atrocity
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ElizabethSquires
Australian
Oct 13, 2014
Oct 13, 2014 at 8:28 PM UTC
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