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I was in my high school swim class and I had told the instructor that I did not float the way the other kids did - black people have documented issues with buoyancy due to bone density and some other physical attributes...
After experiencing a 'non-survivable' heart attack, I passed out while being loaded into a helicopter for transport to a hospital...
On 5th May 1999, at my work in the University of Tel-Aviv, I had a severe heart attack...
It was summertime, July 1975, I was eight years old at the time...
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Got caught in an undertow, decided to rest when knocked down again, and dragged on bottom, stones embedded in leg...
My dad was on vacation with us during the summer of 1952...
My sister and I were swimming with my cousin in her parents' swimming pool...
Even if I was so young when I had the experience I still remember as if it happened yesterday and still feel how it felt during the experience...
I was aware that I had flat lined - yet again...
Beautiful day swimming in the sea side resort beach with sisters and cousins...
As I was fighting to stay afloat in the freezing temperature of the water, I could feel the weight of my boats pulling me under...
Suddenly the light went out...
