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On The Ropes
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I had this thought that I should really just end my life.
I went onto Twitter, “This is the end of the ropes. I can’t take life anymore. Goodbye.”
I was really going to do it. I went somewhere, found rope wherever my dad’s shed was.
I get a notification on Twitter. It was from “Kevin Randleman.” I think it was a private message.
“Hey, are you okay?” asked Kevin. “What’s going on?”
“I’m just about to kill myself.”
“What’s your number?” he asked.
I gave it to him. A couple minutes later I get a call from a withheld number...
“Hello, is this Marcus?”
It was Kevin and I broke the f—k down.
One minute you’re about to kick the chair out from under you, and the next second you’re talking to The Monster himself. He talked to me a lot about what happened in his childhood.
About 20 minutes goes by and I told him I want to make a change for myself.
“You have to do something about it,” he said. “I don’t want you to get off this phone and not do nothing about it. Do something about it.”
I thanked him and I went and got into counseling. I had never talked about when I was molested when I was younger. If Kevin hadn’t talked to me about it, I wouldn’t have faced that issue. Without Kevin Randleman calling me, I’d probably be dead.
-Marcus S., A Fighter’s Legacy
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I had this thought that I should really just end my life.
I went onto Twitter, “This is the end of the ropes. I can’t take life anymore. Goodbye.”
I was really going to do it. I went somewhere, found rope wherever my dad’s shed was.
I get a notification on Twitter. It was from “Kevin Randleman.” I think it was a private message.
“Hey, are you okay?” asked Kevin. “What’s going on?”
“I’m just about to kill myself.”
“What’s your number?” he asked.
I gave it to him. A couple minutes later I get a call from a withheld number...
“Hello, is this Marcus?”
It was Kevin and I broke the f—k down.
One minute you’re about to kick the chair out from under you, and the next second you’re talking to The Monster himself. He talked to me a lot about what happened in his childhood.
About 20 minutes goes by and I told him I want to make a change for myself.
“You have to do something about it,” he said. “I don’t want you to get off this phone and not do nothing about it. Do something about it.”
I thanked him and I went and got into counseling. I had never talked about when I was molested when I was younger. If Kevin hadn’t talked to me about it, I wouldn’t have faced that issue. Without Kevin Randleman calling me, I’d probably be dead.
-Marcus S., A Fighter’s Legacy
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