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Machine Man (serial)
CHAPTER ONE
One Tuesday afternoon my left leg was severed. It wasn’t as bad as it sounds. Well, it was. It was agonizing. There was a lot of screaming and flopping around and trying to tear my shirt into pieces to stem the bleeding. While I was busy with this, my co-workers stared through two-inch polycarbonate security glass and beat on the door. They couldn’t get in. It was sealed for their safety. I had to apply my own tourniquet and try not to pass out for eight minutes. While I lay there, waiting for the time-release, I could see the top of what used to be my leg poking out from between two thick slabs of steel, gently dripping blood to the floor. I felt sorry for it. My leg hadn’t asked for this. It had been a good leg. A faithful leg. And now look at it.
But in the weeks afterward, as I lay in my hospital bed, I came to see the bright side. I remembered that expression: A setback is just an opportunity in disguise. I decided that was true. Because while I was sad to lose my leg, now I could build a better one.
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Rene (#2458)
Location: Austria
Quote: "To live is to die - Cliff Burton"
Posted: 5723 days ago
I tell you, that sentence could have been out of Tony Hawks's "'Round Ireland With A Fridge", if you replace "leg" with "fridge"...
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Location: Berlin, Deutschland
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:(
(also, happy birthday)
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