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I was standing in the ocean...
When I decided to give up trying to reach the shore and just let myself drown, suddenly everything seemed to stand totally still...
First: I was five years old, sitting atop an electric pole looking down at mother huddled over me and yelling for me to wake up...
When I was four years old, my family and I went out to go riding four-wheelers...
I had just returned to Georgia from a reunion party in Texas...
I went to the Venetian Pool with my foster parents at the time, one of their daughters, and my brother and sister...
I was a Combat Marine, in a battle in which certain death seemed imminent...
I was floating over a billowing cornfield...
I was walking around the baby pool...
When I drowned, I experienced excruciating pain for what seemed like a second...
I remember my mother rushing toward me with a terrified look on her face...
When I was three years old my parents took me to visit friends of theirs who had a swimming pool...
