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I can see the gun barrel come right across my eye.

Real people.

I just had blood shooting out both sides of me. and then I knew that I had no arms at all.

Who faced death.

I stood there shaken.

I had no clothes on, and I could just feel a gun pointing at my back.

And live to tell how.

The emotion I felt was fear.

There was no rush of adrenaline.

It was strictly fear.

This is I survived.

It's September 1987 in St. Louis, Missouri.

Harold is managing a grocery store and is working late.

The store had at all times two armed guards while the store was open. At 10 o'clock, when the

store closed, one of the armed guards went home. The other security guard locked up after the

customers left. And then he stayed in the store with us until we all left at 11 o'clock.

I was in my office, which was set a little bit off of the customer service office.

It was a little bit elevated.

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