MESQUITE, Texas — "You gotta feel this," Tino Martinez says.

He's grinning, like always, as he sits at a front table at his family's Mexican restaurant in Mesquite. What Martinez wants his guests that day to feel is the starkest reminder of how it almost ended for him: A hard-as-steel plate in his shoulder.

Martinez knows it could have been much worse.

In fact, what happened five years ago nearly killed him.

Martinez was at his ranch in Sunnyvale, working bulls like he'd done nearly all his life. The bulls were in a trailer and kicked the trailer gate open. Martinez was behind the gate, so it smacked him in the head and knocked him out.

Then one of the bulls charged at Martinez on the ground, picked him up and threw him. The result was a broken clavicle, eight broken ribs and several

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