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October 7, 2003
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As he crossed the chord in flight, Baldwin recalls, "I instantly realized that everything in my life that I'd thought was unfixable was totally fixable -- except for having just jumped."Another guy from the article -- an Iraqi-American -- jumped from it twice. And the article discusses a 1977 protest at the bridge aimed at getting suicide barriers installed. The keynote speaker? Jim Jones, who a year-and-a-half later led 900 acolytes in a mass suicide.
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posted by adm at 9:38 PM | #
I was really touched by the last quote. “The guy was in his thirties, lived alone, pretty bare apartment. He’d written a note and left it on his bureau. It said, ‘I’m going to walk to the bridge. If one person smiles at me on the way, I will not jump.’”
Its strange how just a little random act of kindness to a stranger can change his life forever. We all strive to be acknowledged, we all have the same fears, we are all the same.
Posted by: evgeni at October 8, 2004 3:16 PM