I'll add myself to the heights fear list... It's not my biggest fear, as I have to ignore it once in awhile. But I have an excuse for being afraid of heights: I was ALWAYS afraid of heights and ladders. Then one morning in 1988, two teenage kids were up on the roof of a 2-story house, taking down an antenna. The house exploded, and burst into flames (fire from all the windows at the same time). The blast sent both boys off the edge of the roof. One landed in a ficus tree, and got scraped up. I missed the ficus tree, and landed on the cement (after grabbing for, and missing, the roof of a shed to break the fall). Now if that's not a real reason to be afraid of heights, I don't know what is

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Charles