Next time you race down to the subway platform just as the train is pulling out, then mutter FML when, after twenty minutes, the next train crawling in is the dreaded garbage train, remember Tsutomu Yamaguchi, the only official survivor of both atomic blasts to hit Japan in World War II. Yamaguchi's eardrums were ruptured and chest burned when he arrived on business in Hiroshima just as "Little Boy" detonated, then he survived "Fat Man" when it was dropped after he went home to Nagasaki three days later! He died Monday at the age of 93 (the cause was stomach cancer), and said last year, "I could have died on either of those days. Everything that follows is a bonus."
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