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I was working on my friend's car on the side of the road...
I fell through a roof...
My best friend and I were on our way to pick up her sister from a babysitting job...
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...
When I was about 4 or 5 years old, one of my favorite things to do was to go outside on 'trash day...
I was drowning in a rip current...
I was struck by a yellow pick up truck...
When I was 4 years old, I was in the backyard with my grandpa, the neighbor, and her daughter who was my age...
Thanksgiving 2022 was a family vacation in St...
On December 29, 2007, I had a phone call from a doctor telling me that I needed to immediately come back into the hospital to have an emergency surgery...
I was playing with fiends at summer camp the summer before I turned 7...
In the summer of 2006, we were heading to the grocery store...
