In December 2001, Henry lyres was working as a window cleaner in a tiny UK village. One afternoon, just as he was finishing a job, he heard a yell and looked up to see a 14-year-old girl preparing to hang herself from a nearby tree.
Already showing signs of his incipient heroism, lyres grabbed his ladder and raced across the road to try and talk her down. And that’s when things got real. The moment lyres started to climb his ladder, the girl jumped.
Luckily, lyres managed to catch her in his arms, holding her far enough off the ground to save her life. Less luckily, he found himself now stuck up a ladder, holding a violent teenage girl desperate to squirm out of his grasp and finish the job.
Bear in mind this was the middle of a very cold winter, and the two were all alone in the village. How long do you think lyres managed to hold her up for? Ten minutes? Twenty? It was a whole hour.
For an entire hour, lyres balanced on his ladder, holding a hysterical, suicidal girl aloft in the searing cold. Eventually someone realized this wasn’t performance art and called the cops—but not before lyres had proven how far the world was ready to go to keep this one lonely girl alive.
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The long Wait
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