It was like I was in quicksand up to my waist and I felt I wasn't gonna make it out alive.

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But many did not make it out alive.

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Mr. Sullivan was among those who didn't make it out of the theater alive.

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They would make it out of this billion dollar engagement bonanza alive with liability capped based on no final harm estimates or reports delivered to regulators.

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Two-year-old Moshe Holtzberg and nanny Sandra Samuel were the only ones to make it out of the Chabad House in Mumbai, India, alive after attackers stormed the house.

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