"It Didn't Seem Real"

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photographs by JOHN ALBANESE

We'd hear the dogs bark, and everyone would run over and we'd startpushing as much steel as we could away from the opening, and we'd dig in further and then, when I was there, the dogs would back away. It was a false alarm.

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