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I never realized that traveling from one city to another, with four family members would make me feel so good. I didn't know how a hero felt, until I looked through the window. During the summer of 2009, I finally new that I am a good person. That travel was full of emotions, I felt good about myself but, also angry at people that I didn't even knew. My family and I were driving from a city called Iquique to another one called Calama. I didn't expect that looking through a car window would make me realize how bad people can be.

I could not believe that we traveled in a day that had the highest temperatures of the year. The air conditioner of the car wasn't working that day, so we were sweating a lot. I was wearing a shirt and shorts, the only thing that I wanted was to arrive home. I remember that I feel asleep and I was dreaming that I was at home with the AC at 75º, also I was drinking a lemonade. I woke up and were still far away form home, I looked at my sister and she was taking pictures of me while sleeping.
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I told my parents that I wanted to stop and I heard my father say " OK, we'll stop at the gas station". I was happy, I could finally take some air and maybe go to the gas station store. About ten minute later we stopped fro gas and I went to the restroom. My father fulled the car with gas and we were ready to go but, now he needed to go to the restroom. While we were waiting him in the car, I saw two boys about 17 years. The two boys had a big brown box, they leaved the box near our car and they run away the fastest they could. I told my mother "Is it a bomb". She looked at

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