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Ever since I was little I loved seeing the Twin Towers and watching what happened on 9/11. I always wanted to know why the 10 terrorist would ever do that. What was going through their mind while it was happening? Why would they risk their lives just to kill a bunch of innocent people? Why did they choose to do it on 9/11? How did the Twin Towers fall? Why did they choose to attack the Twin Towers? I found out all the answers to my questions one night when i was on my computer in my room. I clicked shift to see if it was working, it did just in a different way! My room started to shake, my computer crashed, I started to glow, and then I started to disappear. Next thing I knew I found myself in New York City on September 8, 2001, three days before the Twin Towers fell! I only had 72 hours to find out the answers to my questions, so I had to work fast! The first thing I wanted to know was, why did the terrorists choose to do it on 9/11? This was so crazy! After I asked myself …show more content…
I have all the answers to all the questions except question 3 which was “why did they choose to attack the Twin Towers?” I had to find the answers fast because I didn’t have a lot of time left! I went down to Central Park again to think, and I don’t what is was but it felt really weird, weirder than last time. I couldn’t figure out what it was, so I just went on with life. While I was in the park I noticed that there was a dance competition up a head, so I went to go watch. The rules were that you had to answer questions to be in the competition. One of the questions were “why did the terrorists choose to attack the twin towers”. I couldn’t believe it they were asking the question I was trying to figure out! I was so excited! The man that was the judge said that there was 3 answers to the question. This was like a dream or something! The judge called on a girl with short blond hair and she

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