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One night of indiscretion.
(From Philippine Daily Inquirer)
Byline: Al S. Mendoza
ONE mistake you die. That's the law in the olden times, the creed the legendary gunslinger Django of the silver screen lived by.
It still applies today. It will also tomorrow, and the many more tomorrows of our lives.
And so if it's true that Jimwell Torion, the Batang Red Bull no more, had taken an illegal drug just once, then he made the one mistake that cost him-in a manner of speaking-his life.
He has lost his "life'' because his life, before he was found positive for shabu use, was a life of wealth, comfort and happiness.
At 28, Jimwell had a life made out of a Hollywood script: P250,000 a month salary as a Batang Red Bull first stringer, a beautiful dream house in Antipolo and a family brimming with pride for all the world to see. And to think that Jimwell is a mere fisherman's son, whose one and only tool that got him out of a possible fisherman's life is basketball. From his native Argao, Cebu, Jimwell, only 5-foot-7, shot himself to PBA fame and onto a land of fulfilled dreams through his spitfire moves as an inherent basketball talent.
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