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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 experience happened while ice skating with my sisters on a river...
I started playing the 'choking game'...
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It was a normal day...
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...
I had been ill from a recent operation I had had...
Sunday afternoon on a beautiful sunny day in Georgia, my family and friends were at a local lake...
On 5th May 1999, at my work in the University of Tel-Aviv, I had a severe heart attack...
It was summertime, July 1975, I was eight years old at the time...
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I was being observed during pregnancy and was admitted into the hospital's high-risk labor and delivery department...
Got caught in an undertow, decided to rest when knocked down again, and dragged on bottom, stones embedded in leg...
