“What they don't know is that I went over the edge years ago, and lived to tell the tale.”

— Rebecca Wells, book Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Variant: I have been to the edge and lived to tell the tale..
Source: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

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American writer 1952

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