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It was late August, the weather just starting to feel like fall outside. The day was beautiful and sunny outside, it was impossible not to be happy. Even if it wasn't so perfect, it would still be a great day, after all i was going to my first Minnesota Twins game! I was going into fourth grade the week after the game and i had been begging my parents to take me to a game all summer. My brother had already been to one and i was beyond jealous because i had grown to love baseball in the few months before as my brother had started loving it. It was finally my turn to experience it all and witness something new. That day was “kids day” at the Hubert H Humphrey Metrodome. The most thrilling thing for me that day was walking in the doors of the

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