Teen jumps off bridge to rescue woman - Spotted suicide note, leaped into river when he saw body floating face down

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Ask some people what they think of today’s average teenager and you won’t always get the most positive response. But that may be because they never met 14-year-old Corey Warburton. The Grafton, Australia youngster was on his way to a local skate park Down Under when he came across a scene that would challenge the bravery of someone twice his age.

It started when he spotted a piece of paper that turned out to be a woman’s suicide note, and then found her clothes and her glasses discarded on a bridge. When he looked into the waters below he got the shock of his life - he saw the body of the distraught author of that final farewell message floating face down in the murky depths.

Without time to hesitate and finding he didn’t have his cell phone, Corey made the riskiest choice of his life - he jumped off the bridge and went in after her. He caught up to the 70-year-old victim but his heroic race against time didn’t end there. For more than half an hour, he struggled to keep both of them afloat, trying desperately to reach dry land, as the woman lapsed in and out of consciousness…

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