I took a few deep breaths, hands on my knees, and then saw this big guy standing outside the club look at his cell phone, then look at me. All those years of smoking and asbestos removal (sometimes not bothering with a respirator) had given me charbroiled lungs. The hour-long journey had made my feet ache and legs burn as I stopped in front of the club to catch my breath. A strip joint - they wouldn’t allow TV news cameras in there, so I headed that way. It was the Diamond Men’s Club on Fall Street. I trudged on until I saw some bright lights up ahead. When nobody was looking, I casually ducked away and just started walking. But after a few hours it was getting to be a bit much. On Seymour Avenue the carnival atmosphere continued long into the evening. In these excerpts, Ramsey talks about his chance encounter with Michelle Knight last fall and his thoughts about the role his race and his sense of humor played in his celebrity. What You Saw on TV Doesn’t Begin to Tell the Story. Now, Ramsey writes about his experiences of the past year in a memoir, Dead Giveaway: The Rescue, Hamburgers, White Folks, and Instant Celebrity. Cabinet secretary (but not the president). Congratulatory calls on his always-ringing phone included a call from a U.S. Last May 6, after he rescued Amanda Berry from Ariel Castro’s house, Charles Ramsey sought refuge at the Diamond Men’s Club, where he met the guys who became his entourage and media handlers for his summer of viral fame.
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