Guardian of the Golden Gate: Protecting the Line Between Hope and Despair Briggs KevinPevná vazba
The wind was gusting around the Golden Gate Bridge on a March afternoon in 2005 when a 22-year-old man climbed the railing, convinced he and this world would be better without each other.The man had…
Specifikacia Guardian of the Golden Gate: Protecting the Line Between Hope and Despair Briggs KevinPevná vazba
The wind was gusting around the Golden Gate Bridge on a March afternoon in 2005 when a 22-year-old man climbed the railing, convinced he and this world would be better without each other.The man had just lost his job, and felt overwhelmed as a new father. He put himself on a thin beam 220 feet above the Pacific Ocean. Kevin Berthia wanted to die, and he had come to the world's most common suicide destination to make that happen. That's when he met a highway patrolman, and former Army soldier and San Quentin State Prison guard named Kevin Briggs. "I know you must be in tremendous pain," Briggs said over the railing. "If you want to talk, I'm here to listen."The next 90 minutes saved Berthia's life. "I opened up about stuff I'd never dealt with before," he says now. "Kevin gave me a reason to try again."Berthia is one of hundreds of Americans to come within inches of
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