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A weekend vigil to pray for the return of a missing Maryland college freshman turned into a celebration Saturday after the young man miraculously crawled up an embankment from a ravine where he had crashed his car a week earlier.

Julian McCormick, an 18-year-old freshman at Bowie State University in Maryland, was spotted by a passerby Saturday. He was bruised, disoriented and dehydrated, but alive.

“Oh God,” his father, James McCormick, said, unable to control his emotions. “Such a burden relieved.”

McCormick had left the Bowie State campus around noon Sept. 1. He was on his way to pick up his girlfriend in College Park, Md., when he lost control of his Honda Civic near his home in rural Laurel, Md., and drove off the road into a ravine.

The car tumbled down the embankment, landing upside down in a creek under a bridge. It’s heavily traveled stretch of road that his friends and family members passed repeatedly in the last week as the search for the young man intensified.

For the last week, according to authorities, he drifted in and out of consciousness. Police said it took McCormick, trapped upside down, two days to free himself from his seat belt. He had no food and reportedly used a shoe to collect stream water to drink.

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So What is Drinking Liberally?

An informal, inclusive Democratic drinking club. Raise your spirits while you raise your glass, and share ideas while you share a pitcher. Drinking Liberally gives like-minded, left-leaning individuals a place to talk politics. You don’t need to be a policy expert and this isn’t a book club – just come and learn from peers, trade jokes, vent frustration and hang out in an environment where it’s not taboo to talk politics.

Bars are democratic spaces – you talk to strangers, you share booths, you feel the bond of common ground. Salt Lake’s chapter of Drinking Liberally is a source of catharsis for many, and a fun way to meet like-minded individuals for others. Whatever your agenda, come on out and be a part of the newest, most casual way to meet the liberal minority of Salt Lake City. You don’t even have to drink alcohol, soft drinks and water are available and you won’t even be shunned.

Turns out there’s even a Dallas chapter.  Link

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