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It was a weekday on the last week of May 1982...
I was pregnant with twins...
In the summer of 1996, I was 25 years old and living in Lake Louise, Alberta Canada...
It started out a night like any other weekend night...
For years, I was an obnoxiously militant atheist...
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I was surfing in Florida and the waves were around 8 feet high, which is bigger than I am used to surfing...
It was the spring before my 11th birthday...
I gave blood at my church's bloodmobile...
That evening, my mother-in-law and her mother were over at my house with my husband and new, baby son...
Two days before I died, I was lying on sofa...
My mother, Rose G, was in the intensive care unit (ICU) after her spleen ruptured...
This is my best recollection of what I experienced at age 6 when I was drowning in a Wisconsin lake...
