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Mike Hamilton and I are avid Harley riders, my wife and I had gathered at Michael and Susan’s house one evening for dinner and conversation. Half way through the evening, I realized that Heidi and I had forgotten to give our cat Shadow his shot of insulin. Now we are usually very punctual or make a point to be very timely on his injections, For what ever reason, I got sidetracked on the time. Aware of this, I let everyone know that I had to leave, and would be back shortly. Michael offered to ride with me, and we took off. We were about a mile out from there house on to our place in the country which was about twenty miles away. As Michael and I were headed down a four lane road, I noticed a car coming at us in his lane, with sparks coming from his left front tire. As I am observing this potentially ugly incident unfold, the tire comes off the oncoming car, bounces off the bumper of the car that is front of us, and catapults over both of our heads. Now Michael is looking at me, and me at him, thinking that there is no way we just dodged the oncoming projectile by inches. Laughing nervously about the situation to myself, I just chalked that up as another lucky moment in, our lives. Looking back at it now, I am aware of the many Blessings that I have had in my Life. GOD wasn’t ready for me or Michael to leave this planet quite yet. I always saw things like that as pure luck. As I look back at incidents like that now, they have a completely different meaning. Michael has always told me that I have used up seven of my nine lives. I think I’ll keep the last two in reserve for better things.

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