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I had to run into the sea to rescue my (profoundly deaf) daughter...
As a family we had gone for a swim in the pool...
I looked up and thought to myself that I was sure that I had turned the light off, when I had gone to bed...
The first time: I was a little over four years old at the time...
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 found myself outside my body...
I left my body completely...
I was playing by a slide area and was struck in the head with a rock...
I was drowning and it was horrible, water was everywhere and I was desperately trying to breathe while at the same time grab onto the other child who had fallen into the swimming pool when our little raft overturned...
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)...
When I decided to give up trying to reach the shore and just let myself drown, suddenly everything seemed to stand totally still...
I went to the Venetian Pool with my foster parents at the time, one of their daughters, and my brother and sister...
