The Questions I Asked While Drowning

Life Did Not Flash before My Eyes

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I do not believe a single story where the lead’s life flashes before her eyes moments before death. Not anymore.

A handful of friends and I took off to the Outer Banks for a weekend-long party in the middle of the school semester I dubbed my “quarter-life crisis shindig.” Turning twenty-five in the middle of graduate school meant that each…