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nobody@vox.com(Marmot) — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:22:14 -0500

I have to say that I am sorry for not writing more, but I feel I need to start doing this again. I was going through an old box and found a couple of stories I wrote as a kid. It made me laugh because I used to love writing. My imagination was so large I couldn't contain it all in my head. So I always had a pen and paper to write those stories down. So I'm going to start here.

Well the first thing since being here last year was at the end of the year, just before I was to go away on vacation with my boyfriend, I was in a single car accident. I hit black ice going around a curve and rolled my car. Just as I over compensated by turning the wheel too hard, I knew what was going to happen and braced myself. In slow motion, I could feel the car being lifted up off the ground, the windshield breaking and the side air bags going off. When the car finally came to rest, I made sure I could move my arms and legs and looked around at the carnage inside. I was alive and I could move. I thought to myself I should shut the engine off. Of course I started to panic when I couldn't open the window and I stopped and said "Breath". I took a breath and realized that I needed to turn on the auxiliary power in order to open the window. Once I did that, I turned the car back off, pulled the key out, dropped it, and climbed out. I was lucky that all I sustained was a bruised head and a bit of whiplash. My car which I called Pepper didn't fare as well. When all was said and done, I had gone through 4 months of physiotherapy on my neck and ended up buying the exact same car and color that saved my life. (It also helped that I was wearing a seatbelt!) I haven't named the new car yet. We haven't connected. But I'm hoping that I will name her soon.

Again, like being burned, I just remember after all was said and done, I could have lost my life or sustained a more serious injury. I have become aware of how precious life is and how every day I have to make sure the people I know are aware of how much I care for them. I also have to make the most of what has been given to me since it could all just be rolled flat by a rolling pin.

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