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I had to survive my parents getting divorced.I was with my mom in the car and she said we were going to my grandmas because she needed a break from my dad.I was very sad because I loved my dad so much.Now I switch houses beetween my moms house and my dads.It is very difficult going beetween houses.

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l survived the day there was fire on my head when I was 5 years old. This is how it happened. Our power went off so we lit candles and I was next to it. I kept putting my head over it closer and then I got my head on fire. My sister was screaming at the top of her lungs. I try to keep my self calm but did not work. It stung as me falling off a 100 feet wall of brick. I was so confused and I did not now what to do so I screamed loud. I hesitate and was rushed to water and that was the time I had to survive.

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l survived fire on my head. This is how it happen are power went off so we lite candles and I was next to it I kept my head over it closer I got then my head got on fire my sister was screening on her top of her longs. I try to keep my self com but did not work. I hezutate and was rush to water and that the time I had to survive.

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Moving from house to house may not seem very bad. But to make my situation worse, I was moving because my parents had just gotten divorced. After I found out, I literally though I was going to die right then and there. I went to the kitchen to get something to eat, and heard my cat starting to howl. I opened the pantry door and she ran to the side of my legs. For days I cried, but when moving day came, for some reason, I felt way better.

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I was playing a hide and seek game when all of the hiders ran up a hill. I followed them all

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My survival story (because we all have one) is when I climed three fourteeners non stop and stood on the edge of life. It was a normal day and my dad thought that we should go clmb these fourteeners. So on the third and last there was this cliff

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One Scary thing is thinking that what you just did is going kill you. I experienced this when I swallowed a piece of gum when I was 3-4 and since my parents told me to never swallow gum. One day I was in the gracery store and I swallowed a piece of gum and I thought it would be really bad for me so I started crying. After I started crying one of the cashers asked my mom if we need an ambulance, she said no. It is scary to not know if you are going to die exspetioly when you are 3-4

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It was a normal day, if I didn't happen to mention that I was touching distance away from death. I was on a peaceful vacation in Florida, visiting some of my family. I was eating dinner at my cousins' house, delicous chicken wings,to be exact. I was swallowing my second to last bite, when suddenly, I started to cough. I assumed at the time that it was natural, but soon after I found myself not able to breathe. I waved my arms frantically, trying to get someones attention. My dad, who was at the moment in conversation with my uncle, noticed my arm-waving, and rushed over. He started patting me on the back, and after about 5 tries, the piece of chucken came flying out of my mouth like a bullet. It landed smackdab in the middle of my plate. I sighed in relief. It was a miracle thati was still alive.

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When I was 4 or 5 years old I was hospitalized with a sickness that many people have died from. I had phenomena. Phenomena is a lung decease that creates a bunch of sticky stuff that gets stuck in peoples lungs. It made it really hard to breath. I only had to be in the hospital for one day but I was expected to be stuck there for 3 days. It was really scary to be in the hospital especially when I could have died.

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Little did I know at the time, but at the young age of eight years old I almost died. I have a severe allergy to cats and also have asthma. My asthma kicks in when I am around cats, I have other allergies too but cats is a big one of mine. My neighbors Kenzie,Renay, and I were all playing outside when Renay asked if we wanted to go into her basement and I said yes. I now realized this was a mistake considering that she had two cats that sleep urinate and play in the bacement.

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I had to survive when I had to give away my dog Pippin. He had a problem with being around little kids and he would get nervous and bite them. He bit my little brother because he was scared. It was really hard because he was the best dog anyone could have.

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One day I was coming back from playing mini golf with my mom, when suddenly on Interstate 25 a car drifted across the lane and hit us. He veered over and made contact. A burst of glass shot across the freeway and we spun out at 70 miles an hour. I was in the back seat playing with a toy, I ducked and put my hands on my head. We were about to roll when my mom screamed and got control back. I was so glad to be safe after the man crashed us out. He was a young man, maybe about 30 to 40. I was just glad to be alive after being so close to to rolling at 70 miles an hour

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Elevators might be fun and cool but when a 5 year old goes down one and gets stuck without his parents they panic. I was going down the elevator with my brother after we got some candy from the upstairs part of the WildLife experience for holloween. When the elevator was at the bottom and I was waiting for the door to open. Since my parents went down the stairs they were not there to help when the doors wouldn't open. I started panicking after waiting for 30 seconds and my brother tried to calm me down. I was 5 at the time so it was hard to do that. After like 30 seconds more it opened and I was SUPER relieved. I rushed out and found my parents but I never told them.

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my brother, my dad, and me were going to the rec center to go swimming. It was a normal day. We were taking a left turn on to the road that led straight to the rec centers parking lot. We were just passing a turn off into a big outdoor shopping mall when this lady tries to come behind us to go the opposite way. Instead she went to early and hit our back end and made us fish tale. while we were fish tailing I slammed my head on the side of the window. luckily my friend and his mom were driving by and the picked us up.

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Going to work with your mom maybe fun but when you get stuck in the elevator and it starts beeping at you it's not. My mom wanted me to go get her some computer paper. I started towards the elevator I pressed the button. The elevator door opened fast I climbed in and pressed #2. I was in a trance staring at the floor when suddenly I heard loud beeping. I couldn't figure out where it was coming from, when it hit me hard that it was coming the elevator that I was in. I started to panic I thought maybe there was a fire or something very bad and if my mom got hurt. The elevator doors opened and the beeping stopped. I walked out of the elevator like nothing happened. I got the paper and took the stairs upstairs.

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I had to survive moving to Colorado from my awesome home in Nebraska. I was really devastated because it was where I grew up. I was also sad because I would be leaving all of my friends and everything that I was familiar with. I had to survive the whole car ride to Colorado. It was very cramped because we had some of our belongings with us.

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Once when I was relaxing at florida way back when I was seven I decided to walk into the cold water of coco beach and tripped into the water and almost drowned in a traumatizing fashion. luckily someone pulled me out and kept me from drowning. Yet For some reason the exact same thing happend twice in the same day and once again someone had to keep me from drowning.

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Once I was in South Dakota camping right next to the Missouri river, and the wind speed kicked up to 60 MPH while we were watching a show by the camp owners. We ran back to our campsite in rain and a lot of lightning. The dirt stung when it hit your legs. We gathered everything together in our tents and ran to the tornado shelter. We had to stay there for 1 and a half hours! My dad was running back and fourth between the campsite and the shelter because his tent was destroyed and dented in. It was raining when we went back and it was roughly 11:30 at night. After that we went to sleep and the next morning, the storm had passed.

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Once I was just relaxing in my cousin's pool and relaxing on a floating mat. My sister came up and flipped it over. She and I were underneath it giggling endlessly. I had no idea outside my cousin was waiting on the side of the pool ready to jump on top of me. My sister swam out and I was trying to flip it over again when my cousin jumped right where my head was. I was in a three foot deep section and was stuck on the other side while my cousin started walking around I was franticly trying to flip it back over to get a breath of air but my cousin wouldn't allow it. I made a crack large enough for me to fit through but when I was a five year old I was scared and shocked that he would do that. It was terrifying but trust me, it was only the first time.

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Peppermint mints might taste delicious, but when you feel the little mint going down your windpipe, it get's a lot worse. I was at Target with my mom was trying to get a good deal (this happens a lot). I really wanted this expensive product and threw a fit (I was five). I swayed so quickly from side to side my scrumptious mint fell down my throat

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There was no way I was going to survive! I would bleed to death! I thought I could trust a scout like me with a knife!!! That was what I thought one peaceful day at home doing nothing bad. Only using a real knife. I was at home watching TV and was practicing whittling a piece of soap for cub scouts with a real knife I had earned a year or so before. I was done with the soap, and I tried to close my knife. To close it, a lever, if you will, had to be pushed to completely close the knife. Well, I wasn't pushing the "lever" down hard enough and forced the knife to close at a rapid speed. It came barreling down onto my finger and blood went everywhere. I cried deafeningly and immediately ruched to the bathroom to wash off the wound. Then I got it wrapped in a bandage and held it high above my head and heart so it would be harder for the blood to get to my finger. After a few days, it clotted and I lost my scab, but I never lost my scar.

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chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the degenerative brain disease linked to repeated blows to the head. My sister had a soccer tounament in Arizona. I fortunetly had the oppurtunity to come with her and my mom. My sister's team was really good and they made it all the way to the quarter finals. I was just taling to my mom when everybody just stopped and looked at a player on the field. It was my sister! My mom rushed onto the field with a towel soon to be covered in blood. Suddenly multiple moms from my sister's team started telling me she will be okay, everythings fine. And just as quick as it happened I was rushed off to some mall by the fields. One mom kept taking me in all these cool stores but all I could think about was my sister. I started forming ideas and possible outcomes that my sister might not be okay. After an hour or two I arrivedback at my hotel. Undescribable relief flodded me at the sight of my bandaged siter. My mom had told me to leave her alone because she had collided heads with another girl. Luckily she had no concussion just a busted eyebrow. After all the mixed feelings about what had happened all I had wanted to do was give her a hug because without her I don't know who I would argue, play, or even just enjoy spending time with.

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When I was born I almost died. I was born with a condition called cleft lip and pallet. This condition is where parts of your nose and parts of your lip is not there. For me it was one of the worse cases. My top lip and left nostril was not there. I could barely breath and I had to have operations to survive. I wasn't even a month old when I had my first surgery.

There were so many doctors, surgeons, and lights that I just wanted to run and hide. The only problem was that I couldn't run. I didn't know where I was or why. Even if I could've ran I would've died. I was always crying and in pain that I wouldn't usually smile. Not unless I was hurting my brother.

Although I survived that moment I'm still surviving. I've had to go to New York so many times but I'm still not recovered. I might have to live with this condition for the rest of my life. Because of that I now have bad teeth. Usually people have a overbite, but I have a underbite. My top teeth are too far behind my under teeth. Although I survived my birth I'm still surviving, we all are.

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The time I had to survive was when I had the most intense and gory bloody nose and no body knew. It was a very dry season and for some reason my blood was thinner than normal . It all started when I face planted and caused it to bleed uncontrollably and had to use my shirt to stop the bleeding. I swore that day I lost a gallon of blood since I wasn't able to get to a bathroom and I was at the play ground. Bad things always happen and especially when your house is almost a block away.

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I once had to survive a 4 wheller wrek. it was horible I was going down the steep moution when I lost control. I just kep going faster and faster.

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Jolly Ranchers may seem like a flavorfull treat, but when you look death straight in the face you think otherwise. It was like any other day at Mammoth Heights. My friends and I were sitting around eating lunch when my friend gave me a Jolly Rancher. Of coarse like any other kid I took it and unrapped it and tossed it into my mouth. Unlike past experiences where I sucked on the treat absorbing all the flavors it slipped down my throat. The feeling was like no other as I chocked on the candy. I started panicking as I chocked on the Jolly Rancher and started banging my chest as hard as I could trying to relieve my throat of the awful felling. Finallly after what felt like decades I got the candy lose from my throat. I was so glad that I survived that painful experience.