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The story of a man who nearly missed being on a plane that crashed
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This is the story of how Bill Whalen, who is now a retiree in Reno, missed being on an airplane that crashed in Iowa in 1989. He recounts how he changed planes at the last minute without telling his family, his family's reaction when they realized that he wasn't dead, and how he interpreted it.
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This is the story of how Bill Whalen, who is now a retiree in Reno, missed being on an airplane that crashed in Iowa in 1989. He recounts how he changed planes at the last minute without telling his family, his family's reaction when they realized that he wasn't dead, and how he interpreted it.
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