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I've been thinking about what Chris would've want me to say today. The advice he'd give me, which would be something like: Know what, babe? Fuck it. These guys know all about me, tell them about something different. So I thought I'd say something about a hero of Chris', a man called Captain Joe Kittinger: In 1960 climbing into a foil balloon, Captain Joe ascended 32 kilometres into the stratosphere and then armed only with a parachute, he jumped out. He fell for 4 minutes and 36 seconds reaching 714 miles per hour before opening his parachute 5 kilometres above the earth. It had never been done before and has never been done since. He did it just because he could and that's why Chris loved him. Because the thing about Chris was, he said YES. He said yes to everything. He loved everyone. He was the bravest boy - man - I knew. And that was; he slung himself out of a foil baloon every day. Because he could, because he was and that's why... and that's why... we loved him.

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