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I was at the community swimming pool with my father and older sister (by three years)...
The bus driver was pushing the brakes too hard...
That summer when I was 21 years old I went with several friends to somewhere in Jinshan bay in Taipei to swim and BBQ...
We lived in a neighborhood where we all felt safe...
Near Death Experience in the Caspian Sea Another harrowing drowning incident unfolded when I was 19 years old...
AWAKENED IN THE DARKNESS – 1952 (I wanted to see the other side of life in terms I could relate for others...
It was night and I was asleep when I saw a sun colored light...
I went on a weekend white water trip with friends on the Gauly and New Rivers in rural West Virginia...
Sunday, June 20, 1954, I believe @ 10:47 am {Father’s Day} At this time, I was Five Years-Six months old...
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Having been raised in fundamentalist background, I was taught the standard doctrines of Christianity...
I was playing with fiends at summer camp the summer before I turned 7...
I was surfing in Florida and the waves were around 8 feet high, which is bigger than I am used to surfing...
