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Life-Altering Experiences - Optimist Club of San Antonio

While the country wrestled with the social changes of those tumultuous times in 1964, a 13-year-old kid living in a tough Washington neighborhood spent many of his days "drinking vodka, stealing and vandalizing." Edwin " Eli " Whitney, now a cardiologist at the Heart and Vascular Institute of Texas in San Antonio, was living on the edge and precariously close to falling into a lifetime of heartache.