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COOPER!

"I may not walk the straight and the narrow, but I sure in hell try to cross it as often as I can!" -J. Golden Kimball




Dustin Cooper... now this man right here is one of my brothers from another mother, and best friend.  In our history he’s mostly been the main cause of, as well as source of resolving most of the stupid crap I've gotten into. He has been the choice definition in what I think a real brother should be and I would have lost my life a few times if not for him. If it wasn't for his and his wife's graciousness, patience, and love I don't think I would have ever embraced the Gospel; they are one of the biggest influences and causes of my conversion and I could never repay them ever. 

I’ve known him since 6th grade and he started off as someone I hated and got into fist fights with on a daily basis. During this time we would build a friendship out of a mutual hate of our verbally and physically abusive teacher. About the last part of that year we would start faking our fights in order to get in school suspension which kept her away from us. Had anyone taken the time to read our body language and the inflection of our voices, they would have noticed that our fights were about as real as the Professional Wrestling events we would later go to. 

Cooper is someone else I have never really had a hard time with in terms of being almost totally open to, though I have held back some things from him. This is because he is a very extremely blunt person and has never hesitated to call me out on something by calling me a “dumb***”. As much as I’ve been mad at him for it, I know it comes from a place of love and concern. He’s a master of compressed speech like listening which for the longest time used to really get under my skin. I compare him to compressed speech because he could be in the middle of anything seemingly showing no attention what so ever to what I am saying and be able to paraphrase what I said back to me when I would call him out. These days I understand more that he is just wired differently because he’s extremely intelligent despite never really being open to showing off how smart he is.





Back in High School 2000
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2005 or so?



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2001 going to WWE (I was super not sober)



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He and I at a party after going to Priesthood session in 2010. We was the only sober ones.

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