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#Shoftek!

Mencius (a Confucian philosopher) taught that when Heaven is about to give someone a great responsibility, it first tests them with hardship, wearing them out and frustrating their efforts, in order to strengthen their spirit and prepare them for what they must carry.

I want to tell you a story about someone that I lost. He was like a second father to me. The middle man also loved him. He was originally my partner's patient. He had a spine tumor and long story short we became very close, him, me and his wife. He was a judge in Baldwin County. My partner passed him to me because she didn't feel comfortable operating on him due to the difficulty of the surgery. The surgery was successful. When I was arrested the second time after they upped the charge to murder, the bonding company wanted and additional person to sign the paper work in addition to my dad. They wanted someone with a different last name. My own father father in law at that time refused to sign and my ex patient signed the bond along with my dad. The prosecution played a dirty game and claimed that I was not supposed to drive when I was arrested the second time because the bond conditions stated that I should not drive. That is something none of us knew. He testified during the bond hearing and told the story of how we got close. The prosecutor interrupted his testimpony as irrelevant but the judge allowed him to continue to tell his story. Unfortunately he passed away before the trial while I was on house arrest and I felt so bad that I could not attend his funeral. The fact that I could not go to his funeral because of the ankle monitor still haunts me till today. During the sentencing hearing, his wife told the story and how I gave her three more years with her husband. That made me amotional.