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I was born in Hawthorne, California, have an older brother and younger sister...
It was summertime, July 1975, I was eight years old at the time...
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I was aware that I had flat lined - yet again...
As I was fighting to stay afloat in the freezing temperature of the water, I could feel the weight of my boats pulling me under...
I was standing in my friends' doorway, helping them to move a bed...
I remember a police officer slapping me across the face, telling me to wake up...
I live in Nova Scotia, Canada...
I had gone on vacation, at the invitation of a young married couple, to Monterrey, Nuevo León, in Mexico...
Here is a clip on YouTube of me standing by this very same river and talking about my experience...
I was sitting in the bathtub with my friend, it was raining outside...
My father was on the Catholic church softball team...
While boating on a river in deep water with my father and his friend, the boat turned over...
