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My Amazing And Scary True Life Story!

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My Amazing True Life Story!
I want to share an amazing/scary/true story of mine.
The day I nearly fell 1000 feet to my death!

In the early 1990s I began going to the
Science of Mind Church in Boca Raton, FL.
They had annual coming together of
students from all over the country to a
wonderful, annual meeting in Asilomar,
California near Pacific Grove, on the
beautiful Monterey Peninsula.

There I met a nice lady, Rose. We liked each other,
but we thought 3000 miles was too far for dating.
As I was leaving, I saw her getting into her friend's
car. I walked over to the car, she opened the window
to hear what I came to say. I leaned in and gave her
a big beautiful kiss and asked for her phone number.
We stayed in touch.

Not very long thereafter she sent a letter to all her
friends telling about her upcoming vacation in Bali.
I was broke, from a recent divorce, and she said,
round trip flight was only $1300 and we, any of us,
could stay at small facilities for $2-3 a night.
I wanted to go so much, but I didn't have $1,300.

The very next day, a client called and said he needed
an appraisal quickly. I said I could do it overnight
if he could pay me $1300 cash. It was a deal and
I called to arrange a flight and a meeting.

She and I met there and traveled and took bus tours.
It was an amazing but underdeveloped country and
the people were very nice and very poor. We made
them smile when we could and vice versa.

One day, while staying in a nice little hotel, at the top
of a mountain, I went for a walk alone to explore the
terrain. Everything was so beautiful as I walked a small
path about 1000 feet above ground level.

Suddenly, I was hanging ont0 the root of a small bush
below ground with nothing below me but the huge drop!

I don't remember the path crumbling nor grabbing the
small root to save my life. To me, it was walking the path...
FLASH...hanging on for dear life to a skinny root and
struggling for survival.

I guess you figured out that I pulled myself up to where
the path had been. I stared in shock realizing how, not only
my life could have been over, but the probability of
experiencing a 1000 foot drop before I struck bottom
was terrifying!

I later met a wonderful little family there and now I am
still in touch with them 30 years later. Believe me,
that was a life changing trip with lessons and places
I can never forget.

To this day, there is no answer in my memory

to what happened. I don't remember the earth

dropping beneath me, nor reaching out and

finding the root to grab in one second, or the shock,

the fear of dying or anything I must have

experienced at that moment! I only remember

walking and then hanging on for dear life!

All I can do is thank God for intervening and keeping me here

for another 30 years safe and sound.

I woke up tonight realizing it was time to share this amazing
life changing story from 30 years ago.

Todd Puntolillo
Writer, Author, Artist
Phone: 954-464-0830
Email: toddp743@gmail.com
Websites:
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"A wise man once said...nothing."
-- Author didn't say his name

"Worrying is using your imagination
to create something you don't want.
-- Abraham

In the Game of Life, who LOVES

the most--WINS! -- Todd

Listen....... two thirds of the world ......are third world ..... so they are uneducated..... and brainwashed beyond ......what with poverty .......religion and wages and broke as fuck .......and breeding like fucking dung flies ....... and they make all the low echelon consumer products ........how ever what is going on is the third world ...... fuckers charging into countries and poverty ...... and civilized govts........ helping them rather than send them back they are to blame for all the shit......and of course the govt ........for giving these immigrants money jobs lpaces and food ......and now they are attacking ,.....the countries ....... and ungrateful servile repugnant bastards .....now this is what you get !!!!!!.......time to start changing the laws .....

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Dozens were injured as violence swept through the continent on Saturday – with cops shooting tear gas and powerful water cannons at raging crowds.

Protests also took place in Belgium, Albania and Portugal – with shocking images showing chaotic police encounters unfold.

In France, an estimated 400,000 people took to the streets in “Act Two” of last weekend’s disorder.

Over 110,000 people demonstrated in the capital of Paris with two people being seriously injured, French officials said.

One man in Toulouse reportedly had fingers blown off as a second was wounded during riots in Clermont-Ferrand.

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Similar clashes unfolded in other Italian cities including Bologna and Turin.

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Extraordinary footage showed armed cops driving through burning streets as swarms of demonstrators filmed the unrest.

One hundred people were arrested in Barcelona.

Across in Tirana, Albania, over 2,000 officers responded to student-led protests for the 12th day in a row.

Most of the protests in Europe are over the cost of living and the funding of public services.

And they come following a vicious wave of riots which have torn through France in recent weeks – some of the worst the country has ever seen.

In the French capital on Saturday, feared riot police deployed tear gas and fired water cannons, as angry protesters hurled projectiles towards them.

In the east of the city masked youths dressed in black were tear gassed and blasted with a water cannon.

One, a 22-year-old who asked to be identified as Robert, said: “We’ve come to protect against injustice, but the government is doing everything it can to get us off the streets.

“It throws police at us, and does nothing about the long term problems of inequality and economic mismanagement.”

Molotov cocktails were chucked at riot police in Nantes and demonstrators clashed with cops after a banned march in Strasbourg.

Tear gas, baton charges and water cannons were used by riot police in cities including Bordeaux, Nantes, Rennes and Marseille on Saturday, as officials dubbed it “the longest day”.

Around 400 anarchists from the Black Block movement went on a rampage in the Alpine city of Grenoble, and “attacked the police with anything they could find”, a local prefecture official said.

And dramatic footage showed masked protesters in Lyon kick away fuming tear gas cans as they made their way towards the city centre.

In Pau, demonstrators were seen scrambling as canisters were fired down a downtown shopping alley.

Water cannons, armoured vehicles and aerial surveillance were part of the government’s hugely scaled-up security strategy after fires, vandalism and looting ripped through the country.

Tensions between authorities and protesters heightened on Friday night when the Paris police banned the previously-authorised march route that was set to start at Bastille, instead green-lighting one on the city’s outskirts.

The inter-union organisations behind the demo furiously rejected the ban and insisted they would show up at Bastille anyway.

Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu warned on Friday evening that “the threat remains high for the far left”.

He added: “Vigilance is also needed with regard to crime because it takes advantage of these disturbances to recreate more confusion and steal.”

He assured that the “lessons learned” from the October 17 riots meant bolstered up and renewed security arrangements, especially in “the way the force will be used”.

Other cities including Lyon, Marseilles, Toulon, Le Havre, Rouen and Grenoble banned demonstrations altogether, citing “obvious reasons of security”.

Lyon, France‘s third biggest city, had up to 300 shops looted last weekend and a tourist office was torched in the hours of chaos.

The Yellow Vest movement, unions, university and high school students were all behind Saturday’s demonstrations protesting against the government, cost of living, and education standards.

Police had already seized dangerous objects earlier today including fireworks that were set to be used in the rallies.

Hélène Denéchère, spokesperson for the Paris police, said: “Checks are being carried out throughout the Île-de-France region on all roads.

“Already, dangerous objects, intended to be used in particular against the police forces, have been seized, including fireworks mortars.”

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He added: “We need to be hyper-reactive. We will need to be extremely mobile. You have the support of the hierarchy, and of the minister as well.

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