User blog comment:MDVolcano/Survivor Season 1 Sign-Ups/@comment-33641024-20190118165504

Name (Age): Xavier Shaughnessy (58) Current Residence: San Francisco, CA Occupation: Jeweler/Community Activist

Personal Claim to Fame: My personal claim to fame would be my life, in all honesty. I was thrown out of my family home when I was 16 years old and moved across the country from Masachussetts to California, I learned a trade for myself that I love and created a thriving business from it, I volunteered and worked with AIDS patients when the crisis first hit San Francisco in the 1980s (and I still do to this day) and I've just created a happy and fulfilling life for myself. That is MY legacy that I have sole sownership over. Inspiration in Life: My husband Iain. He has such grace, magnamimity and just pure kindness as a part of his character and those are traits where I often fall short. He inspires me to become a better person every day.

Pet Peeves: When people are judgemental and narrow-minded, that really bothers me.

3 Words to Describe You: Extroverted, Street-Smart, and Bold

Why You Think You’ll “Survive” SURVIVOR: I can survive SURVIVOR because I'm very savvy at reading people and figuring out when people are being duplicitous. I'm also a lot tougher physically and mentally than what people expect of a man of my age. I work out and eat very healthily, I know how to swim and I'm extremely dexterous. Mental toughness is going to figure into this a lot and I know how to handle pain, how to handle setbacks, how to handle loss, how to be disciplined and stoic - life experience has taught me that - and I don't think some of the younger players will have learned those lessons just yet, which will give me an advantage on them. Who Will Be Some People You Would Target: I have to be very selective with who I target because I don't want to mark MYSELF out in the process of doing so. During the first phase of the game, I'd target people who are just being stupid or have rocked the boat one way or another. During the second phase of the game, I'd try and get out the people who aren't really thought of as threats but actually are, because that's my lane. By the end, I'd hopefully sit back and let the stronger players cannibalize each other and make it to the Final Tribal Council. Why You Think You Will Be the Sole SURVIVOR: I think I'll be the Sole Survivor because people generally underestimate me when they first see me - they think I'm unintimidating, unassuming and unthreatening. But I'm coming in with tricks up my sleeve that no one will see coming and before they know it, I'll have the million dollar check in my hands. Manga:

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