In the spring of 2001, I was working for a cemetery business where we were creating autobiographies to preserve the memories of the deceased. I worked with two brothers, Bret and Tyler Cassidy, who grew up in Saint Louis. Their father owned two major cemeteries in the Mid-west. One day, Tyler, age sixteen and the younger of the two brothers, found an old tape recording of his grandparents who had passed away. Tyler sprinted downstairs to share this recording with his parents and older brother Bret. The recording was played and an idea was spawned. Tyler had come up with this idea of preserving memories – every person that had purchased property at one of the two cemeteries would get an autobiography of their life.

Bret and Tyler would go into the homes of their new plot owners and record their memories on videotape. Once recorded, they would take the raw footage and edit the material into a documentary-

Hollywood Cemetery was once the biggest cemetery in Southern California, residing right behind Paramount Studios, one of the major Hollywood studios in Tinseltown. The Cassidys bought the property and their business skyrocketed in a matter of months. They changed the format of their biographies, incorporating my ideas to give the documentaries a complete, more well-rounded finish.

After waiting on hold for over an hour, the representative gave me another confirmation number. At 8:00 pm, I walked over to the ticket counter to receive a new ticket. I was booked on an 11:00 pm connecting flight from L.A. to Charlotte, North Carolina. I decided to take a nap near the departure gate. After awhile, I was awoken by the sound of "now boarding flight 6387 to Charlotte." With my ticket in hand, I approached the counter to hear that I was on the wrong flight. The lady standing behind the counter said,"Your flight left two hours ago." I pleaded my story, asking if there was any way I could get on this departing flight. She put me on the flight stand-by, and was finally on my way to the Big Apple!

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