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Outside Magazine November 2002
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The Hard Way
Unbroken Chain (Cont.)

A FEW DAYS AFTER we got home, Bryan wrote me a long letter.

"It may have been piling on too many straws, or it may have merely been a weakened emotional state. I may never know. But it doesn't matter. Everyone has such moments. Life suddenly robs you of your focus right when the task before you demands everything you have to give. The pressure mounts and you crack, not from pegging the meter but from operating too near the red line.

"These are the trips that shape individuals and partnerships, the fire that refines our mettle and reveals our weaknesses and impurities within. Mark, we must not delude ourselves by thinking that we do not possess such weaknesses. On the contrary, I pray that we always encourage each other to live in a manner that exposes them."

If you look up the word enchainment, it says nothing about mountains.

Enchainment (n): The act or action of linking together.




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