While Anthony Mann was living in his dying body, he spent a lot of
time in cyberspace. There he was flying free of his increasingly
less-useful limbs and from the other limitations ALS imposed on
him, participating in the world available to him there, working on
computer-related projects and issues, enjoying his freedom and
exercising his strengths. He continued his lifelong habit of
thinking about his life and actions, analyzing and ordering his
experiences, remembering and reliving. When he was ready to seize
the opportunity to write a memoir of what he knew would be a
not-nearly-long-enough life, he did so with pride and dedication,
determined to make sure that he would finish getting his story told
before his time ran out. And he did get his story told, a story
that includes superheroes both fictional and real: his greatest
hero, Randy Couture of mixed martial arts (MMA) fame, plays a
starring role as he goes from inspiring Anthony from afar to giving
him an up-close and personal experience of the world of MMA that
was one of the highlights of Anthony's life. Anthony's story is
about the ordinary events of growing up as well as events that, in
retrospect, can seem extraordinary: going to school, making
friends, finding a place in the day-to-day world, falling in love,
celebrating holidays, traveling, working, playing. Resting on the
structure of the chronology of his life and enlivened by the drama
found in events both great and small, Anthony's story lays out the
pieces of the puzzle formed when life presents a stark pathway with
no easy exit. Gifted, intelligent, loving parents and a strong
network of loving family, friends, and colleagues provide light
near the darkness of a terrible diagnosis; the harsh reality of
diminishing mobility stands next to the pleasures of the trip of a
lifetime and vast technological resources that bring entertainment
and the world into a home modified to accommodate Anthony's changed
circumstances. Hope and despair, love and anxiety, peace and pain.
The story of how this young man lived in his dying body and of what
happened along the way and how he fared on his journey offers a
look into a kaleidoscope of fate, family, and personal history, the
theme of the hero played out on a twenty-first-century stage.
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