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Enrique

(27,461 posts)
2. omg
Sun May 6, 2012, 10:02 AM
May 2012

this guy is awesome.

So Henline, who lived through a roadside bomb that burned more than a third of his body and now is thriving after nearly four dozen surgeries, employed his normal survival technique.

“Whoa!” he yelled to the crowd staring at him. “Watch out in there. That pizza is really, really hot!”

“I got some people to laugh,” he said during a phone interview Friday. “You do that to try to take away the awkwardness ... you have to mess with people to break the ice, let them know everything is OK.”

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Republicans want to slash this man's benefits. Scuba May 2012 #1
omg Enrique May 2012 #2
Omg, I agree! Mnemosyne May 2012 #3
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