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It's surprising how many people have had a close call with this.

I'm not sure exactly on my recollection, however, I had a similar incident and my reaction was not anything calm. I was angry and very frustrated. My guess is that it probably depends on the person and situation

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It's surprising how many people have had a close call with this.

It does explain why psychics often talk about how something happened in your childhood involving water. That always seemed pretty unlikely to hit to me, but I guess not.

And it still counts as a hit, when your best friend or brother had the near-drowning experience instead. Also lots of other things can happen with water. My sister made the unpleasant acquaintance of boiling water once.

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