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An Improbable Exciting Yankees V. Red Sox Baseball Game

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Following an admittedly exciting Yankees v. Red Sox baseball game with $5 bottles of Coke and a resounding chorus of “Sweet Caroline,” my father, brother, sister, and I all stumbled our way through the thick throng of people bee lining for the exits. When we finally managed to escape the stadium and enter Yawkey Way, it was to nearly a dozen small groups of people playing instruments and an even larger number of people selling t-shirts featuring the faces of athletes. Food vendors lined the sidewalks and worked quickly to serve the ever-growing lines circling their carts. Dad, Kenny, Rebecca, and I continued to move through the street in our haste to get to the car which, hours earlier, had decided to stop working entirely.
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