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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...
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...
On September 24, 1963, my family was supposed to move house to Oran (Algeria)...
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 walking around the baby pool...
It was during the summer of 1979, I was about to turn nine...
I remember my mother rushing toward me with a terrified look on her face...
I'm not sure if time slowed down, or that my thoughts and cognitive processes were so incredibly fast...
It was a Friday and I stayed home from work, feeling like I had the flu...
