As with “I’m sorry,” it’s never too late to say “Thank you.” That’s why ex-policeman Larry Frederick, who nearly 36 years ago lay gruesomely injured and freely bleeding alongside a freeway, reserved a large table Monday at a Santa Rosa restaurant.

Frederick has no doubt he’d have died after a Ford LTD going 65 mph struck him down in August 1982 had a number of people not done precisely what they did for him, precisely when they did it. “A series of small miracles saved his life,” Frederick’s wife, Gail, said from alongside him at the table at Stark’s Steakhouse & Seafood.

Her husband the former Oakland police officer asked several of his miracle-workers to allow him to thank them by treating them to a long overdue lunch.

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