The Inflating Ego of a Girl

"I could probably even be one of the popular kids if I put my mind to it," he says. "The water was cold, but that was a godsend in a way because then I could pretend that I was shaking just because of how cold it was" He recalls being held underwater for 52 seconds by someone who thought they were going to drown him. The next thing he remembers is lying on the dock coughing up water while an adult voice asks me if I can hear them. 'How I'd ever been to thinking I was going to die'