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"It happened so fast: One moment I was running trails, the next I was staring a black-bear sow in the face, I could smell it."

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This experience matters because it gives the narrator a life or death situation that will help them grow if another situation similar occurs.

Quote: "Sometimes even now when I'm running, I think of that bear charging and how I stood there, so still and yet so alive. It opened something inside of me that can never be closed."

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Time: late July
Place: Far North Bicentennial Park in Anchorage, Alaska
People: The narrator, alone on a 22 mile run.

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"I backed into the brush, fortifying myself behind a skinny grove of alder trees, moving slowly, carefully, never taking my eyes off the bear."