They raise champion bucking bulls. But this North Texas family’s story is more than that.

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…

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