Chapter 1

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Why don't I smell lemons?

That's the last thing I remember thinking.  I read somewhere that right before you die, you're supposed to smell lemons.  I don't really know how credible that is, but that's what I thought about anyway.

I vaguely remember two blinding headlights and mom screaming from the passenger seat.  The ambulance ride was a blur.  A lemonless, life-altering blur.

It's weird.  How one minute you can be passionately singing along to an underrated rock song, and the next, planning a funeral for your mom.  Your single mom.  Pretty much the only family you've got.

They told me it was a drunk driver.  Killed in the accident.  I didn't know how to feel about that.

I technically died that night.  For three minutes and forty-two seconds.

Anyways, that was three years ago.

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