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Item Text: We had been standing at Exeter and Boylston waiting for a friend to come through when we decided to move towards the area where the second blast would eventually go off. About halfway there we found a spot on the fence, and stopped. Maybe 2 or 3 minutes later, the first blast went off. I honestly thought it was a large firework or celebratory cannon, but when I saw the smoke I thought it was maybe an underground utility. Then, the second went off. We instantly knew we were being bombed. We ducked into a restaurant and went through the kitchen into the alley. We ran to Comm Ave then doubled up towards the common, then came back down the other side of Boylston, where we were able to reunite with friends.
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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.
