Guardian angel

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I'm 220 feet in the air and I have
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somebody trying to get my attention God
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keep yelling there I say if you give me
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closer that's it
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because all I gotta do is nudge back and
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what happens because somebody is four
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five minutes late getting home they roll
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down their window as they come by and
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they yell out jump you sob what could I
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have done different I was tired of
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living his life I was tired of lying to
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everybody I was exhausted at who I
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become I thought about the Golden Gate
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Bridge
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ask for directions so I got to the Bay
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Bridge
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and I asked him for directions I said
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how do you get to the goin Gate Bridge
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but I was telling myself ok whoever I
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asked I hope that I when I asked him
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they looked me in my face and they'll
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see something inside of me and asked me
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well why are you going to the bridge
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because part of me on the inside was
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ready to say why I wanted to go I mean I
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was really looking for a reason to to
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continue to live I couldn't find
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anything the ladies just looked at me in
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my face and gave me a plain look she
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gave me directions I knew it wasn't
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gonna be all right no more park my car
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left the keys in the ignition and grab
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my prepaid phone and I got there on that
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bridge and I started walking I looked
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over the railing saw it was that the
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devil's going to stop me I saw there was
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nothing there water but when I looked in
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that water I just didn't see water I saw
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a piece I saw no more nights of crying I
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saw no more living a lie I saw no more
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being a burden all the things that I
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needed in life I saw in that water I
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took a couple steps back in a moment as
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I'm heading towards the railing and
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about to jump over I hear whoops
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hey is everything all right
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and in that moment it was enough of a
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distraction to where I grabbed the
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railing and turned myself on his court
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i'm 220 feet in the air and i have
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somebody trying to get my attention I'm
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upset I'm yelling back and forth for him
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stay back I'm trying to keep myself warm
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I'm bundled up so I keep yelling in I
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said if you give me closer that's it all
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right cuz all I gotta do is nudge back
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like that's all I got even a big nose
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just a small nudge and that's it finally
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in my heart starts feeling like why
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doesn't you even care because he's not
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he's not yelling at me he's not he's not
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he's not making me feel like I'm stupid
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for being here because everything inside
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of me is like man you're stupid you
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didn't put yourself in this position you
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did not come here to talk I came here
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because I was in pain and I was trying
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to get out of it but here after 15
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minutes this this voice starts to
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penetrate me him him I put my soul in it
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and he gets a little closer and I start
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to hear him I never look up
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in that same position on that bridge
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with my feet hanging off the cord and at
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any moment I could do this and it could
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be over and for 92 minutes this
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individual is human just listen to me
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now think about that when I say that for
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92 minutes
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he said he stood there and just listened
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to me
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so after this time he decided on his own
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to come back over the rail and I said
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what did I do
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that helped this situation all he told
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me was you listened you let me speak and
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you listened that's all this guy was
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looking for and I think that's what so
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many people are looking for
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shortly after this incident I received a
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letter from Kevin's mother dear mr.
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breaks I adopted Kevin when he was only
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six months old but you are one of the
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reasons Kevin is still with us
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I truly believe Kevin was crying out for
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help we truly thank God for you
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sincerely indebted to you NAR Vela
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orthia
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it's really good we have a choice are we
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gonna take the path of none of my
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business they should handle it are we
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gonna confront them head on and say hey
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I'm seeing these things what's going on
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let's talk listen to understand that's
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the key listen to understand
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Kevin Briggs is known as the guardian of
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the Golden Gate Bridge he spent more
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than two decades talking people down
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from committing suicide I want to know
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that there is hope and we want help we
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want to know about it don't feel that
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you're alone in this
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Briggs talked roughly 200 people out of
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suicide we don't have to be doctors
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psychiatrists and all that we can do
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this right here right now to be able to
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have that courageous conversation with
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someone I just focus on going this way
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I don't worry about going back I don't
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worry about left I don't worry about why
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I was worried about forward
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I just think I was alone and nobody in
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the world felt like me now that I know
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is people know what I feel like me it's
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my job to help them out to encourage
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them let them know hey I've been where
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you been the darkest point did you ever
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thought you can ever be in I came out of
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it you can come out of it too
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I can't honestly believe that it would
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almost 8 billion people on this planet
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that people still feel alone and that's
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why we all got to come together two ears
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and one heart that's what saved my life
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and that's what all of us in this room
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possess challenge yourself today and in
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the future to look out for each other
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the moment the moment people feel heard
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they get healed the moment but they have
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to be heard listening can saves people's
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lives and we all can do it
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