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Dan Helmstadter

Male, 28 years old

somewhere, United States

Power = 12 (Vote Weight = 43.17%)

Occupation: gun slinger

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A Few Words: "In life as in surfing, there are waves that if you dare to ride them will kill you, and there are waves that will give you the ride of your life" Jimmy Buffett............................... ...................................... ...................................... ...................................... ...................................... ........................................"We wander in the thousands over the face of the earth, the illustrious and the obscure, earning beyond the seas our fame, our money, or only a crust of bread; but it seems to me that for each of us going home must be like going to render an account. We return to face our superiors, our kindred, our friends - those whom we obey, and those whom we love; but even they who have neither, the most free, lonely, irresponsible and bereft of ties, - even those for whom holds no dear face, no familiar voice, - even they have to meet the spirit that dwells within the land, under its sky, in its air, in its valleys, and on its rises, in its fields, in its waters and its trees - a mute friend, judge, and inspirer. Say what you like, to get its joy, to breath its peace, to face its truth, one must return with a clear consciousness. All this may seem to you sheer sentimentalism; and indeed very few of us have the will or the capacity to look consciously under the surface of familiar emotions. There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportunities, the pleasures! But the fact remains that you must touch your reward with clean hands, lest it turn to dead leaves, to thorns, in your grasp. I think it is the lonely, without a fireside or an affection they may call their own, those who return not to a dwelling but to the land itself, to meet its disembodied, eternal, and unchangeable spirit - it is those who understand best its severity, its saving power, the grace of its secular right to our fidelity, to our obedience. Yes! few of us understand, but we all feel it though, and I say all without exception, because those who do not feel do not count. - Joseph Conrad................................. ....................................... ........................................................................................................................ ....................................... ....................................... ....................................... "I'm on a mission that niggaz say is impossible, but when I swing my swords they all chopable" GZA ....................................... ....................................... ...................................................................................... ........................................ ........................................ ........................................ ........................................ ........................................ "You've been given the chance to hear the true and living So do the knowledge, son, before you do the wisdom" - Bobby Digital............................................................. ........................................ ................................. ........................................ ....................................... ........................................ ........................................ ........................................ "The best climber is the one who's haveing the most fun" - Alex Lowe....... ........................................ ........................................ ........................................ ........................................ ........................................ "I felt, in the past, 'Oh, things are so good, I'm afraid that they might go away.' But, now that time is passing, I actually see that it's OK for things to go away and I'm even more free." - Steph Davis ........................... ........................................ ........................................ ........................................ ........................................ ........................................ "I got your back even though you don't got mine." - Blue Scholars ............ ........................................ ........................................ ........................................ "I need a new goal" - Steve House

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