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Flashback: The Fire and Some Tough-As-Nails Dumbbells

Posted by webmaster On September - 3 - 2007

[Editors Note: This was originally posted at Total Physique Online]

…Just ask the Albermarle County Fire Department!

Yep. That is our home going up in flames. It is hard to describe how I feel, looking at it today. Then, the feeling was surreal. I was not feeling real. It felt like a nightmare. I felt the utter futility that resides in the efforts of any man to captain his own ship.

qldb_boxes.jpgThree months ago, our condominium complex was burned down and in an instant I was thrust into a new phase in my life.

The last 3 months have been an adventure to say the least, and while part of me really wishes the fire had never happened, I have to admit that there is a part of me that is grateful it did. When I think about it, if the fire had not happened I would still be in that condo with my brother, living a life as stagnant as a 3-day old bucket-full of rainwater.

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