El Salvador: A Humorous Day

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My birthday was a very hectic day, my grandma and grandpa were hundreds of miles away, and my dad was thirty minutes away without a car. When everyone got notified that my mom was going into labor, there was panic in the air. My grandma and grandpa were in an eighteen wheeler on there way to the hospital going eighty miles per hour and my dad was running block by block all the way to the hospital. My birth had just caused a memorable day in everyone's lives. I was born on a Tuesday, February 13, 2001. There were some historical events that happened on February the 13 that make birthday much more interesting. In 2001, El Salvador was hit with an earthquake that measured 6.6 on the Richter Scale. At least 400 people were killed. In 1997, Astronauts

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