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Some guy once told me that skydiving is like cutting your throat and seeing if you can get to the doctor before you bleed to death.

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Brock Yates
Age: 82 †
Born: 1933
Born: October 21
Died: 2016
Died: October 5
Journalist
Screenwriter
Writer
Buffalo
New York
Brock Wendel Yates
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Bleed
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Throat
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Skydiving

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