So I showered down the hall and dried my hair.

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"I was showered with metal wreckage and wounded in my legs, " he told Reuters news agency.

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Sometimes I just went home and showered, then sat by a half-open window waiting for the night, Marie out on the town with Stan, my parents on back shift at the works or sitting downstairs watching game shows.

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When I did, it was as if the sky opened up and showered awesome down on me.

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