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Appeared in the December 19, 2025, print edition as 'My Family Survived Bondi Beach'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

In 2023, Jones published a memoir he titled “I Survived COVID-19,” one of 10 books — two of them collections of prison recipes — that he has written during his years behind bars.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2025

Within hours, a custom T-shirt shop in Manhattan was already selling a souvenir: a shirt emblazoned with, “I Survived The N.Y.C. Earthquake, April 5th, 2024.”

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2024

Those shirts — “Burgundy and Sold” and “I Survived the Snyder Era” — ranked first and fourth among his company’s best e-commerce sellers.

From Washington Times • Sep. 6, 2023

Mr. McAllister, how's it feel to be the Boy Who Survived?

From "Dear Martin" by Nic Stone