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I was swimming in a pool and removed my life jacket...
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...
Just after they smashed my face with a rock, I felt myself raising from a horizontal position and slowly rising from the surface to an upright position...
I was born in Hawthorne, California, have an older brother and younger sister...
I was undergoing surgery for removal of an ovary when I found 'myself' above the operating table sitting on a bar attached to the ceiling...
I fell out of an attic onto a concrete garage floor head first...
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 was in a field and this place was the most beautiful, peaceful place I had ever been...
After experiencing a 'non-survivable' heart attack, I passed out while being loaded into a helicopter for transport to a hospital...
Sunday afternoon on a beautiful sunny day in Georgia, my family and friends were at a local lake...
It was beautiful, indescribable really...
