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what's it like to feel so free?
I'm not a big New Yorker fan, but this may be the best thing ever written. It's about jumpers on the Golden Gate Bridge, and I don't remember the first time I read it -- but it was one of those things that sticks with you, and you spend a year afterward looking for it, typing in variations on the words you remember. I found it, obviously, eventually, and every so often I read it again, maybe once or twice a year. Because halfway down the first page, you get this:
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.”
That's the part I always remember, the part that makes me go look it up again, but it continues to be that good for about six pages, really.
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