Preview: Adrianne Haslet on Before & After with Lester Holt

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1:25I decided to walk away from the finish line and walk about two or three blocks down the street. And I had my back to the finish line and I heard a giant, enormous boom and blast.

1:41And the ground shook and I looked behind me and it was just, it was nothing but black smoke everywhere. And then I saw police with their guns drawn and some runners were down and everyone was down. and I remember yelling, the next one's going to hit, which is wild, because I certainly didn't know what was happening. I said, the next one's going to hit, and I put my fingers in my ear. It went off almost immediately after I put my fingers in my ears.

2:11And then I was on the ground. And I remember it was, I saw nothing but gray smoke. and I couldn't feel anything. I couldn't hear anything. It was like my senses were all gone. I didn't know if I was alive or dead. You were really close to the... I was two feet away from the blast. Yeah. As we prepared to do this, I'll let you tell the story, but you sent an email. Yeah, I did. And there was something else you wanted to talk about. Yeah, definitely. I wrote your team and said, you know, there's so much more to that story that I've been wanting to tell. The first thing that I thought of when the blast went off and I opened my eyes and I was laying on the sidewalk is I'm not going to go like my birth mom did.

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