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I was nearing my fourth year in the U...
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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 doing an intense, group cross-fit workout when my cardiac arrest occurred...
What happened from my perspective: I was shooting up meth with my boyfriend at the time...
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I found myself at ceiling level, in a corner of the room...
When I was 4 years old, I was in the backyard with my grandpa, the neighbor, and her daughter who was my age...
It was the middle of summer in the Georgia/South Carolina area, and it was very hot outside...
They induced labor...
I was playing with fiends at summer camp the summer before I turned 7...
It was a weekday on the last week of May 1982...
I was pregnant with twins...
