Are You A Smiler?
from Fayebelle
"(Dr.) Motto had a patient who committed suicide from the
Golden Gate in 1963, but the jump that affected him most
occurred in the seventies.
'I went to this guy's apartment afterward with the assistant
medical examiner,'he told me. 'This guy was in his thirties,
lived alone, pretty bare apartment. He'd written a note and
left it on his bureau. It said,'I'm going to walk to the
bridge. If one person smiles at me on the way, I will not
jump.'"
--New Yorker Magazine article, "Jumpers," by Tad Friend
I guess a good question would be....do you smile at the people you pass by?
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