Personal Narrative: Liberty Island

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JC Denton stood on the south dock of Liberty Island. Beneath his stoic, lifeless facade he was worried - deathly worried that there were no GEP guns to be found on this lifeless rock. Liberty Island had previously been ravaged by international terrorists several years prior, who exploded most of the Statue of Liberty in the process. He had been told that it was the work of the French group Silhouette, who claimed that France “was wrong to give America the Statue,” though he had his doubts.JC had been searching for a GEP gun - or guided explosive projectile gun, a rocket launcher said to be the last word in stealth takedowns - throughout the seemingly endless night. JC had heard from his brother, Paul Denton, that Liberty Island was, for lack

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