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Don’t Do It
I tried to warn him. Several times. Maybe that was the problem.
“Listen to your buddy. She’s not the one for you.”
Instead, he hauled butt down the aisle. All I saw was the dimpled boy from our youth slipping away, oblivious of the cliff ahead.
It gets worse. Under the chuppah, our hero someway somehow managed to screw up his only freaking duty: stomping the bejesus out of a glass goblet — missed it by that much.
‘Twas a harbinger of things that came.
He hasn’t spoken to me in years.
Perhaps I shouldn’t have said I told you so.
From Guest Contributor David Thow
Tank Man
No one knows where he came from. He simply appeared on the streets from nowhere.
He stood defiantly, one man against a nation, a beacon of hope, a harbinger of doom.
He became a symbol around the world. To many, he was an emblem of brave resistance. To some, he was a token of what one person can accomplish against all odds.
Nothing is known about who he is or what made him believe one man was able to stop an army.
No one knows what happened to him afterwards. But the truth is everyone knows what happened to him.
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