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I was standing on a pier four inches above a body of water...
I was in the backyard getting jumped by my brothers for the millionth time (they may consider it playing, but I considered it me getting jumped)...
I have been snowboarding since I was 12 and have always enjoyed the extreme jumps on the mountains...
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...
We were unloading some crates onto a barge several hundred yards off the coast near the mouth of the Mekong river (we called it the Saigon river at the time)...
When I decided to give up trying to reach the shore and just let myself drown, suddenly everything seemed to stand totally still...
I had just returned to Georgia from a reunion party in Texas...
The first event that I can remember was when I was three years old...
I was making a sailing yacht transfer between two cities in my country...
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...
I was swimming in a pool and removed my life jacket...
