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My first recommendation is to ride a bicycle. This is specifically for their fool factor – every time I saw someone riding a bicycle it seemed so innocuous. It was low-impact exercise that was good for you. Lance Armstrong rode a bicycle and he beat like one million kinds of cancer. Does that not promote the idea of health and well-being in regards to the bicycle?

I live in Brooklyn and all of the hipsters ride bicycles: they have messenger bags and wear vintage glasses and. . .

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    My first recommendation is to ride a bicycle. This is specifically for their fool factor – every time I saw someone riding a bicycle it seemed so innocuous. It was low-impact exercise that was good for you. Lance Armstrong rode a bicycle and he beat like one million kinds of cancer. Does that not promote the idea of health and well-being in regards to the bicycle?

    I live in Brooklyn and all of the hipsters ride bicycles: they have messenger bags and wear vintage glasses and. . .

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      A memoir about a body that was crushed by a truck, and a spirit that refused to be.
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          The only thing I could control right now was my eyes, they were the only thing that weren’t hurting.  I kept them open for my mother, for my father, for my sister, for my brothers, for my family, for my boyfriend, for my friends – I knew if I closed them I would be giving up not only on ever seeing all those people again, but on seeing anything else in my life.
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            The only thing I could control right now was my eyes, they were the only thing that weren’t hurting.  I kept them open for my mother, for my father, for my sister, for my brothers, for my family, for my boyfriend, for my friends – I knew if I closed them I would be giving up not only on ever seeing all those people again, but on seeing anything else in my life.
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