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Larry Barlow of Alpine is our letter writer of the month for June. This was his first published letter to the editor, but he says he has some other concerns that he'd like to voice in the future on these pages. We hope he does. He and his wife have four children.
I've seen you trying to commit suicide many times, riding your bike on the road in American Fork Canyon.
Once you were riding up the canyon two abreast. A truck pulling a horse trailer came around a turn in the road into the blinding morning sun. At the last split-second it swerved, barely missing you.
Yesterday I saw your parents assisting in your suicide. You looked to be about Boy Scout age. They dropped you and your friends at the top of the canyon. Being good parents they followed behind your group with their flashing lights on. I held my breath as car after car tried to get around your group as you coasted wobbly down the canyon.
My worst nightmare is that someday I'll watch your suicide or be part of it.
If there's anything more dangerous than riding a bike on the American Fork Canyon road, I don't know what it is.
Larry Barlow
Alpine
June 3, 2006