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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • My dad, my brother(13) and I (16) were on a resort scuba dive (we borrow their gear, and get a ride on their boat, and follow their leader during the dive). Descending down a line, with my dad following the dive lead, then me, then my brother.

    About 60 feet deep, I see my dad jerk suddenly, followed by a bunch of bubbles. I see him grab his octopus… Another spasm and more bubbles.

    I watch as he swims down to the dive leader, and grabs his octopus, taking in and releasing a breath. He signals to dive lead he needs to surface. Dive lead grabs his octopus and replaced it with my dad’s original regulator… Another spasm, and he begins emergency surfacing. My brother and I follow. Dive lead has a Merry dive all alone.

    At the surface, we find that the rubber bits on my dad’s equipment (regulator, and octopus) had deteriorated, and broken at depth. He had lungs full of water, and spent the next half hour barfing and coughing it up.

    That’s about all I got, still brings me to tears twenty some odd years later to just think about it


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    5 days ago

    Specifically chasing for 24 hours… So, any of the antagonists that require planning, or are infirmed … Or both?

    John Kramer, the jigsaw killer. Bitch has terminal brain cancer and is in a wheelchair most of the time. I don’t think he could come up with a jigsaw plan, kidnap and execute it in that much time.