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This has bothered me all my life: I was about 4 years old...
On a beautiful sunny day in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho my little brother Thomas and I were playing in a neighborhood apartment swimming pool...
I’ve always had a memory of this experience, but didn’t know where it came from...
My swimming teacher instructed the class to swim to the other end of the pool with a kickboard and by holding it with one hand...
I was drowning in a rip current...
I found myself at ceiling level, in a corner of the room...
Thanksgiving 2022 was a family vacation in St...
It was the middle of summer in the Georgia/South Carolina area, and it was very hot outside...
I was surfing in Florida and the waves were around 8 feet high, which is bigger than I am used to surfing...
This is my best recollection of what I experienced at age 6 when I was drowning in a Wisconsin lake...
I remember being underwater and panicking for a split second...
On February 25, 2021, at around 12 noon, I walked from my house a few miles down the road to a bridge...
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