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Retired California Highway Patrol Sgt. Kevin Briggs first met Kevin Berthia in March 2005 when Berthia was moments away from jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge

Briggs was responsible for talking more than 200 people out of leaping from the famed California landmark

After helping Berthia, they later forged a deep friendship and now travel the country speaking about mental health and their work preventing suicide

On the worst morning of his life, Kevin Berthia awoke and, after years of fighting with depression, decided that he was going to drive to the Golden Gate Bridge and jump.

Berthia, who was 22 years old at the time and living in Oakland, Calif., had never been to the famed landmark before and had to repeatedly ask for directions along the way.

But minutes after pa

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