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This is our American stories.

And every once in a while, we just tell great stories about ordinary Americans doing extraordinary things.

A mass shooting took place on November 7, 2018 in Thousand Oaks, California at the borderline bar and grill.

A country western bar frequented by college students.

13 people were killed.

Tyler Spaddy was one of the roughly 250 patrons there on that faithful night.

Here he is to share his story of survival and hope.

The week before the shooting, it just gives kind of a story to what borderline was.

It was a Halloween night where everyone goes and dresses up.

And you have costume contests.

And that night I went as the little boy in up in the full um boy scout uniform that i borrowed for my neighbor

and my buddy uh jesse went as donald trump and the whole uh the whole place was full of people

in costumes and my dad was in attendance and my sister was in attendance and everyone was uh

hanging out playing, playing pool, creating friendships,

line dancing, and having a good time like you usually do at this place.

And it wasn't just a bar.

Many people, when you think about it in the news, just think about it like that but it was an 18 plus

place where people would go to socialize in the college years it was a really uh amazing place where

uh i would been going since i was 18 years old so five years prior to this happening and knew just about every person who regularly

went there, and especially my friend group of about 20 people that would go regularly and play

pool and do the things that college students do. But saying that this even happened in this place,

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