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It was in the afternoon...
When I drowned, I experienced excruciating pain for what seemed like a second...
I was making a sailing yacht transfer between two cities in my country...
I personally had weird complications after giving birth...
I remember my mother rushing toward me with a terrified look on her face...
I was looking down from about fifteen feet and was concerned for my buddies who were upset...
This experience happened sometime between the time I lost control of my motorcycle and three and half days later when I came out of the coma...
It was a Friday and I stayed home from work, feeling like I had the flu...
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...
I was swimming in a river with some friends of the family...
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...
