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It's a taste you can't quite put your finger on, weird, but in a surprisingly good way, try more weird with Dr. Pepper Zero.

Dr. Naseley.

No, it's just ordinary people living ordinary lives who go above and beyond what's expected of them to pull the desperate out of whatever hole they've ended up in.

These people, he said, were the real angels.

Although temporarily, they get to carry out God's will.

Now I wasn't nearly as religious as my father.

In fact, he would be quite surprised and disappointed if he knew just how little I had actually kept to faith.

But there have been times in my life where I've had to question my skepticism regarding religion and God, most frighteningly on that rainy September night four years ago.

It was the weekend. My buddy Aaron had come down to visit me in my little backwards town and the two of us had gotten smashed and made the terrible decision to go driving in the hills far to the south.

I thought it would be fun to race through those winding roads while drunk off our asses.

We were trying to get a taste of our spent youth by indulging in supremely reckless behavior.

Luckily for us, we didn't end up hurling the car off a cliff.

Not so luckily, Aaron ended up doing that to himself.

We had stopped on the side of the road because he wanted to piss off the side of the mountain, which he did, of course.

But he slipped and ended up falling after his own urine.

I remember how the sight of him disappearing into the darkness after crunching and slipping on a twig made my heart almost jump out of my throat.

I think I must have lost about half of my buzz with just that.

The rest was gone when I spotted his battered and bloodied body on the ground below.

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