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conversations.value: Provide a plot for a book about Norris, Cressner, Ledge entitled The Ledge.
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conversations.value: The Ledge (short story): King employs a first person narrator and opens with the protagonist, Stan Norris, in the clutches of Cressner, a wealthy, cruel criminal overlord.\nCressner intends to get revenge on Norris, who has been having an affair with his wife.\nInstead of killing him outright, Cressner reveals his penchant for striking wagers, and offers a chilling ultimatum: if Norris is able to circumnavigate the 5-inch ledge surrounding the multi-story building where Cressner live in his penthouse, he can have his wife and $20,000.\nIf Norris refuses, he'll be framed for heroin possession and never see his lover again.\nCressner also reveals that he has done this to six others, three professional athletes who crossed his path and three ordinary people who got into serious debt with Cressner.\nNot once has Cressner lost the wager.\nSeemingly without any other choice, Norris accepts the wager and proceeds to make his way carefully around the building's cold, windswept exterior.\nNorris encounters multiple obstacles, particularly from the wind and an obstinate pigeon.\nNorris completes the harrowing ordeal, only to discover that Cressner had already murdered his wife.\nCressner slyly claims that he never welshes on his bets and that, while the heroin has been removed from Norris' car and the money is his for the taking, his wife's fate was sealed before the wager was even made.\nEnraged, Norris overpowers Cressner's bodyguard and obtains his gun.\nWhen Cressner pleads for his life, Norris proposes to spare him if only he is able to complete a trip around the ledge.\nHowever, while waiting for Cressner to circumnavigate the building, Norris reveals to the reader that, unlike Cressner, he does sometimes welsh on bets, implying that he will kill Cressner, regardless of his potential success on the ledge.
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conversations.value: Provide a plot for a book about Gavin, Shana, Joe entitled The Ledge.. Start with the sentence 'The Ledge (film): Detective Hollis Lucetti (Terrence Howard) receives news from a doctor that he has been sterile his entire life'.
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conversations.value: The Ledge (film): Detective Hollis Lucetti (Terrence Howard) receives news from a doctor that he has been sterile his entire life.\nUpon reaching home, he questions his wife about who their children\'s father is.\nThe story switches to Gavin Nichols (Charlie Hunnam), an atheist, standing on a ledge as if to jump to his death.\nA small crowd forms below Gavin, and Hollis responds to the emergency.\nAt first it looks like a regular suicide attempt.\nIt is quickly revealed to be more complex than that, as Gavin explains to Hollis that he has no other choice than to jump, or somebody else will die.\nThe story flashes back and describes the story of the love triangle between Gavin, Shana (Liv Tyler) and Joe (Patrick Wilson).\nShana is the new girl at the hotel where Gavin works.\nShe lives with her husband Joe in an apartment just down the hall from Gavin\'s.\nJoe is a fundamentalist Christian who infantilizes Shana.\nDuring a visit one night, Gavin and Joe discuss religion.\nGavin is an atheist, and he neatly picks apart Joe\'s born again belief system, pointing out that most of the people on Earth would go to Hell, even Catholics, if Joe\'s faith were correct.\nGavin points out that a Chinese child who dies in a traffic accident might never even know about Jesus, and therefore have no chance to be born again.\nJoe\'s response is that such an example is not proof of God\'s unfairness, but merely the reason why Christians are called to proselytize.\nTheir discussion heats up into a full blown argument that ends when Shana asks Gavin to leave.\nAt work, Shana notices Gavin consoling one of his grief-stricken employees with talk about God.\nHe puts on a genuine act as a believer which helps calm the employee down.\nOn a walk with Gavin one day, she confides in him that she used to be a drug addict and a prostitute.\nShe ended up with a john one night who liked to have sex in empty churches.\nHe beat her badly afterward, and Joe discovered her in the sanctuary.\nJoe helped her turn her life around, and she feels an immense debt of gratitude to him.\nShe tells Gavin that Joe wants them to move to Uganda to spread God\'s word.\nGavin and Shana spend more time with each other, and they eventually begin an affair.\nJoe quickly deduces what is going on and witnesses their assignations.\nHe confronts Gavin as he is leaving for work and insists that he join him for a talk.\nIn his apartment, Joe tells Gavin that he previously had a wife and two kids, but he would leave them at night to score drugs and hookers and do all kinds of depraved things.\nHe lost his family and was drunk in a gutter when he was born again.\nHe believes that, after God had already given him so much, God gave him Shana to take care of.\nHe quotes Psalm 23 to Gavin and forces him at gunpoint to read Leviticus 20:10, "If a man commits adultery with another man\'s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress are to be put to death".\nGavin counters with the story of the adulteress from John 8, whom Jesus saves by ordering only those without sin to cast a stone at her.\nJoe agrees that Gavin has a point, but he questions whether Gavin has the conviction to die for his beliefs.\nThe next day, when Shana is supposed to leave Joe, Gavin is waiting for her to call.\nJoe calls Gavin instead and orders him to the top of a building.\nJoe has decided that, "I\'m more of an Old Testament kind of guy", but instead of killing both Gavin and Shana, only one of them has to die.\nJoe has Shana at gunpoint and will kill her at noon if Gavin does not jump off the building.\nLucetti grows increasingly desperate to save Gavin.\nHe tells him more about his story, explaining that his wife committed adultery out of love and fear that she would lose her husband.\nShe wanted their children to look as much like Lucetti as possible.\nSo, she slept with his younger brother.\nGavin scolds Lucetti for focusing too much on the pain of his wife\'s betrayal instead of the love that motivated her.\nHe asks Lucetti to tell Shana he loves her before jumping off the building.\nThe police find Joe and Shana in a hotel room with a direct view of Gavin\'s suicide.\nJoe is arrested.\nLucetti goes home to his wife and kids, seemingly determined to reconcile.
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conversations.value: Provide the first four paragraphs for this book.
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conversations.value: The Ledge
  Over the years I have been fortunate to climb with solid partners. During my formative climbs, I appreciated the companionship of Joe Berlin, Tom Engleson, Jim Seines, Mark Piantedosi, Chris Flood, Patrick Heaney, Scott Anderson, Daryl Miller, Pat Rastall, and many more. I have also been fortunate to share a rope with Shawn Zeigler, Terry Parker, Marlene Swift, Scott Yetman, Megan Burch, John Calderazzo, and Alan Arnette. Through climbing classes and expeditions, I have been invigorated by many student climbers too numerous to list here; I wish you all safe travels to the mountains and beyond. Special thanks to Mike Gauthier, Deb Read, Uwe Schneider, John Norberg, and John Madden for helping to get me off The Mountain. Thank you to the family and friends who welcomed me home.
  I am most thankful for my wife, Gloria, and our children, Jessica and Nick. Gloria has been a loving and supportive partner through all the twists, turns, and loops of life. Gloria, through your words, actions, and deeds, you are a shining role model for me and our kids. Jessica and Nick, thanks for showing me fun, for giving me hope, and for making me proud.
  Over the course of my writing career, I have been shaped by many gifted and talented editors and storytellers, whose influence I feel in every sentence I write. That began nearly three decades ago with Greg Pearson, a professor at Metropolitan State College who made me believe in myself in a way I never had before, and continued with Bob Spencer, Bill Spencer, Bob Davis, Rich Abrahamson, Chris Cobler, Tony Balandran, Mike Littwin, Todd Hartman, Sara Burnett, David Montero, Jim Sheeler, Lynn Bartels, Chris Barge, M. E. Sprengelmeyer, Charlie Brennan, Michael O'Keeffe, Jeff Kass, Hector Gutierrez, Tina Griego, David Olinger, Jennifer Brown, and the late James B. Meadow. Thank you all.
  Finally, to Colleen, Forrest, Morgan, and Sawyer, I offer my heart. A writer is supposed to always find the right words, but there aren't any big enough to explain what each of them means to me. Their love, support, and patience—and their tolerance of the missed meals and middle-of-the-night phone calls as I pursued the story of the day—sustains me. Their hugs are my medicine, their smiles my sunsets. They make my life complete.
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conversations.value: Provide another paragraph.. End with the sentence ' They make my life complete.'.
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conversations.value: Finally, to Colleen, Forrest, Morgan, and Sawyer, I offer my heart. A writer is supposed to always find the right words, but there aren't any big enough to explain what each of them means to me. Their love, support, and patience—and their tolerance of the missed meals and middle-of-the-night phone calls as I pursued the story of the day—sustains me. Their hugs are my medicine, their smiles my sunsets. They make my life complete.
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conversations.value: Provide the last three paragraphs.
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conversations.value: Finally, to Colleen, Forrest, Morgan, and Sawyer, I offer my heart. A writer is supposed to always find the right words, but there aren't any big enough to explain what each of them means to me. Their love, support, and patience—and their tolerance of the missed meals and middle-of-the-night phone calls as I pursued the story of the day—sustains me. Their hugs are my medicine, their smiles my sunsets. They make my life complete.
  Mike Price soaks in a desert sunset in western Colorado during a stop on his way to Utah, where he was headed to teach an Outward Bound course. Since 1982, he has climbed across the United States and been on high-altitude expeditions to Alaska, Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico, Nepal, and Tibet. Formerly an environmental geologist with his own consulting firm, Jim is now a professional speaker with Speaking of Adventure (www.speakingofadventure.com). Jim lives in Colorado with his two adventurous kids and his very tolerant wife.
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conversations.value: Add another sentence about JIM, DAVIDSON, accomplished, distilled.
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conversations.value: Finally, to Colleen, Forrest, Morgan, and Sawyer, I offer my heart. A writer is supposed to always find the right words, but there aren't any big enough to explain what each of them means to me. Their love, support, and patience—and their tolerance of the missed meals and middle-of-the-night phone calls as I pursued the story of the day—sustains me. Their hugs are my medicine, their smiles my sunsets. They make my life complete. 
  Mike Price soaks in a desert sunset in western Colorado during a stop on his way to Utah, where he was headed to teach an Outward Bound course.  
  JIM DAVIDSON is an accomplished climber and inspirational speaker who shares lessons distilled from a lifetime of mountain adventures. Since 1982, he has climbed across the United States and been on high-altitude expeditions to Alaska, Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico, Nepal, and Tibet. Formerly an environmental geologist with his own consulting firm, Jim is now a professional speaker with Speaking of Adventure (www. speakingofadventure. com). Jim lives in Colorado with his two adventurous kids and his very tolerant wife.