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I was to have a D&C (dilation and curettage) after a miscarriage...
After being sent to the hospital, my body felt peaceful and amazing...
I have been snowboarding since I was 12 and have always enjoyed the extreme jumps on the mountains...
My kindergarten class was on an outing to a local state park where we swam in a shallow tidal pool and played on the beach...
We were unloading some crates onto a barge several hundred yards off the coast near the mouth of the Mekong river (we called it the Saigon river at the time)...
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...
The first event that I can remember was when I was three years old...
When I drowned, I experienced excruciating pain for what seemed like a second...
I was looking down from about fifteen feet and was concerned for my buddies who were upset...
My surroundings were filled with light and I was floating looking down on my body, my relatives who were present at the time of the accident and the paramedics...
On a typical warm summer vacation day during the summer of 1976, I decided to travel with a friend from Allentown, Pennsylvania to Ocean City, New Jersey to enjoy sailing my sixteen feet HobbieCat on the ocean...
I was swimming in a river with some friends of the family...
