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I was wakeboarding and crossed the wake...
As I lay in bed, with doctors and nurses administering emergency help, all of a sudden I was on the ceiling looking down at my twisted and mangled body...
It was a very hot and sunny day...
I won't get in to the reasons I drowned myself...
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I was at an all-time low in my life in all areas: Broke from gambling addiction, wife left four months pregnant with my son, a lot of financial problems, bad family relations all around...
I was at the beach...
Rogue River Rafting Scare, July 11, 2005...
At age seven, while swimming (I had not really learned yet) in a motel swimming pool, I found I could not get my head above water...
I remember my mother rushing toward me with a terrified look on her face...
I was born in Hawthorne, California, have an older brother and younger sister...
I was in my high school swim class and I had told the instructor that I did not float the way the other kids did - black people have documented issues with buoyancy due to bone density and some other physical attributes...
It was summertime, July 1975, I was eight years old at the time...
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