Pushed To The Edge: Part Five, The Cliff Dive
June, 1978
Just before the divers at La Quebrada in Acapulco take the long fall from the cliff into the surf, they kneel at a little shrine to Our Lady of Guadalupe and say their prayers. It's not hard to imagine what they ask her--I used to know the prayers they know--probably, something like, "Remember, O most gracious Virgin, that never was it known that anyone who fled to thy intercession or sought thy mercy was left unaided. Inspired by this confidence. I fly to thee, O virgin of Virgins, my Moth...
