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We’d arrived with all of my new friends...
I was six years old in 1967, very bright, and had to have my tonsils out because of constant infections...
I had my second hernia operation...
I woke up this day feeling a bit tired but nothing unusual...
I remember seeing those car lights [was going to say on our side of the road], then total blackness...
I went to reach for the bubble bath but somehow my perception was impaired...
I was sitting around talking with friends when I felt my heart speed up faster and faster and then stop...
It all started seconds before the crash occurred I got this really scared feeling then a feeling of complete peace, like everything was going to be alright...
For three days I roamed the halls and grounds of the care hospital, talking to many people in the same state as I was in...
I had been in a lot of pain after almost four hours of surgery...
I was at the hospital with my mother and I remember I was nervous or scared since they were going to draw some of my blood...
I was swimming in the river, under the watch of my older sister...
