--Three Doors Down, "When I'm Gone"
"Are you writing this down?" He asks me as he's rambling towards his car, walking along a frontage road parallel to the freeway.
"No, but I will later," I reply seriously.
At some point in the conversation, which was filled with self-obsession, he says, "I feel like jumping off the pier."
I pause, and I'm thinking of all the things to say, what are the appropriate words? How do you get someone to back off the ledge? "Are you okay?"
"Yeah, why?"
"Are you suicidal?"
"No! I just thought it might be refreshing."
"Okay, I'm going to get you. I'm five miles from where you are."
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