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Personal Narrative: The Cuban Missile Crisis
For my friend's birthday, we went to sociology. He picked me up from my house, with his two other friends carter and Geo. Edens dad dropped us off and we started. The mission we were doing was the Cuban missile crisis. We had to get the launch codes before the commander got back in 1 hour. Two of the coolest parts where a telephone that we had to take apart and a fake bookshelf. The hardest part was the locks. It was agonizing looking at the timer every few seconds. We didn't really get started until about halfway in. Even them, we were screaming and yelling at each other. Eventually, after we had used all our hints and we had about 10 seconds left, we got out. If you get out you get a bracelet saying which one you bet. It was my second time,
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