9th
August
2007
Have you ever had the feeling that you just wanted life to stop? Have you ever felt that life had passed you buy? Have you ever wanted life to stop just long enough for you to catch your breath and survey they landscape of your past? I have felt that way. I feel that way now. I really want to get a fix on where I have been and where I am going. I want to know my direction. Hell, I can’t even remember the last time I had a direction. I cannot even remember the last time I even knew where I was headed.
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9th
August
2007
Dave, our prayers are with you for a speedy recovery!! God Bless You and Laree
Reprinted with kind permission from Laree and Dave Draper (thanks guys!)
From Dave Draper’s Post Column

Now THIS is the sort of gym yours truly likes to train in. I love it. There is nothing like a barbell in your hands. Iron keeps you young!
A gym is any place an athlete and his training apparatus meet: chinning and dipping bars in the basement, the track and field at a local high school, stairs and hills in the neighborhood, a punching bag hanging in the garage or a bar and a heap of dinged plates in the corner of a bedroom.
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9th
August
2007
Dave, our prayers are with you for a speedy recovery!! God Bless You and Laree
Reprinted with kind permission from Laree and Dave Draper (thanks guys!)
From Dave Draper’s Post Column

Dave had an incredible physique then. He has one to this very day. He looks just great! You go Dave!
I park a block from the gym and can hear the clanking of plates echoing down the street. Come to think of it, I hear the clanking of plates in my dreams, under anesthesia and under water.
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