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I was floating over a billowing cornfield...
I was walking around the baby pool...
The first event that I can remember was when I was three years old...
When I drowned, I experienced excruciating pain for what seemed like a second...
I remember this as if it happened yesterday...
I was looking down from about fifteen feet and was concerned for my buddies who were upset...
When I was three years old my parents took me to visit friends of theirs who had a swimming pool...
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...
When the illness began it was thought I had the flu, but as time went by and the fever worsened I was taken to the hospital for blood test and rheumatic fever was found...
I was looking down at the hospital bed where I was lying...
My first experience was a feeling of floating...
It was a normal day...
