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In Florida, one of the first things you're taught as a child is that if you're ever chased by a wild alligator, the only way to save yourself is to run away in zigzags. It's a lesson on survival that has guided much of Edgar Gomez's life.

Like the night his mother had a stroke while he and his brother stood frozen at the foot of her bed...

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