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Posted: Thu 0:31, 29 Aug 2013 Post subject: two lives linked forever |
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two lives linked forever
He is white,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], about 30 years old,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], with short brown hair. He's a big man, 6 feet 2 and more than 300 pounds. On his last day of life,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], he chose a green shirt and khaki pants. As of Monday -- a full week after he apparently jumped to his death off a bridge near Energy Park Drive in St. Paul -- no one had called police to identify him.
His body might still be under that secluded bridge if not for his shoes and for a decent young woman with whom he is now forever linked.
Susan Lee, 24,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], was riding her bike home from work at the University of Minnesota's St. Paul campus on July 6. It was a beautiful late afternoon,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and Lee,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a year-round cyclist with thick brown hair and an engaging smile, was planning to chill with her boyfriend.
Then she saw the shoes. They had been placed with seeming care,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], tidily, one next to the other. They pointed toward the concrete-and-wire railing on the bridge, which shuttles buses between campuses. Lee wanted not to see them,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], not to think about what might be below. She peered over "sort of haphazardly,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," she said,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and saw nothing.
People flew by on bikes,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], in buses. No one stopped to consider the shoes.
Lee wanted to believe that, maybe,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], they were abandoned there by a free spirit who longed to go barefoot on a gorgeous summer day. "But it was so hot on the cement,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," she said. "It didn't add up."
She carefully pulled herself up onto the concrete barrier, higher this time, balanced against the wire,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and looked over.
"I called police right away,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," Lee said.
She used her little Canon PowerShot to take one poetic photograph: her bike, his shoes. Then she waited for the police.
It took the officers several minutes to find her,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. To find them,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
"It's hard to imagine living with that much sadness," Lee said, "and they still don't know who he is. That possibly shows how alone he really was."
Of course,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], that remains conjecture until someone steps forward who knows his story.
St. Paul police Sgt. Paul Schnell said the Ramsey County medical examiner's office is working on an artist's sketch that will be released soon. Schnell didn't hide his own sadness,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
"We don't know what types of problems a person has in his life," he said. "How does this happen? We have nothing. How do you tell a story that we only see one tragic glimpse of?"
Two days after the man's body was found, Lee spotted some pretty artificial flowers while cycling by a dumpster. She grabbed them, rode onto the bridge again and left them at the spot where the shoes had been.
"I almost wonder if he did point the shoes there so someone would find him," Lee said. She wonders, too,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], if it was OK to take the photo of the shoes.
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