re: Who do you know that has fallen the farthest in your lifetime?

Friend of mine was a great looking guy, slayer of trim, athletic stud.

Ate about a pound of mushrooms one night and his left eye took a left turn and he developed a twitch. Now he looks like fricking Marty Feldman and rattles around like Michael J. fox.

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I'm one of the few kids from my neighborhood who is still living. Two committed suicide, two OD'd, one fell into a creek and drowned while drunk. One girl attempted to shoot herself, but the gun was crooked and she blew off the side of her face instead -- now she's disfigured. Another one is currently in prison on drug charges and car theft

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damn, sounds like that Offspring song

It's pretty hard to fall lower than dating the prettiest girl in high school to selling your body to gays for drug money, having no real relationship with your kids then becoming HIV positive before finally od'ing on heroin.

Drugs are a cruel bitch.

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Csb

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Well it's as good as your get rich quick scheme. And at least mine is a true story bra.

I was being serious. That is a csb. My story is true. Dude's name is Chuck and the family is from Magee Ms and owned McCarty farms. Why do you think I would make up a story like that?

I don't have anybody. The people I know who ended badly weren't all that well off to begin with.

Noticed that too... And the funny thing is that he edited that post.

Kid I knew growing up was that guy - smart enough (not a genius, but not an idiot, either), popular, natural athlete, etc. Came from a very good family - responsible, involved parents, not rich, but very comfortable. The kind of kid that has everything going for him to succeed in life. Sometime his senior year of HS shite started to go sideways (don't know the details, by then we had stopped hanging out). I don't think he made it through a semester of college. Like too many in southern WV, he got hooked on pills, started robbing people (including his own family), did time. His folks did everything humanly and financially possible to help him, for years on end, and he squandered all of it. Last I heard he is still fricking up - I am honestly surprised he hasn't OD'ed or gotten killed yet.

Another guy was a stellar athlete, played for a non-BCS D1 football program, but got drunk and died fricking around at the lake the summer after his freshman year. Just senseless.

Don't have any later-in-life, post college stories. If anything, those are all on the opposite end of the scale - guys who were, if we're honest, pretty big frick-ups in HS/college, but finally grew up and are doing pretty damn well for themselves.

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They had a kid and I think he was wanting his rights.

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I could see that fricking up some people, sure. A vindictive exwife and her nasty family with money could make life hard. Sucks that a child is involved.....if true.

I was basing my story on the situation at the time which looked really bad. Time heals all wounds and it looks like he keep his parental rights and has remarried. She is married to a judge and has had more kids by her second husband. Chuck remarried has more kids by his second wife. Looking back it was crazy at the time but there are always two sides to every story.