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The pushbike rapidly gathered momentum as I pedaled hard down the hill...
It was back in High School...
I lived in Zimbabwe, Africa and was driving back to boarding school with my cousin in the front passenger seat and two friends in the rear of the vehicle...
Every time I begin to tell the story one more time I am grasped by the numbness I seem to feel...
I was driving to work at night and it was sleeting and raining heavily...
Ten days after the birth of our second child, my husband and I had a planned evening for just the two of us...
I was sleeping and dreaming...
The pushbike rapidly gathered momentum as I pedaled hard down the hill...
That night I entered into the emergency room, I almost don't remember because I passed out in the ambulance with very high blood pressure...
I was over at my cousin's house for a pool party; I remember everything that happened so vividly...
I felt dizzy while I was speaking on the phone, sitting in a chair in my room at the hospital...
I was drowning and it was horrible, water was everywhere and I was desperately trying to breathe while at the same time grab onto the other child who had fallen into the swimming pool when our little raft overturned...
