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by: EmmaPele

What an amazing creature a stingray must be to pierce a man's heart.  What a mythical way to go for Steve, as if his death were made for storytelling.  The last moment was the most intimate union with a creature described, on emedicine, as non-aggressive towards humans.  Did he experience pain? Perhaps, for we read, "the stinger apparatus then injects a protein-based toxin into the wound, causing immediate intense (even excruciating)  pain to the victim."  He knew the danger as he approached these creatures, but he always had the invulnerability of the enthusiastic adolescent, and we watched him week after week amazed at how fearless he was, as if blind faith protected him somehow in a way that it never would have protected us.
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