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InvincibleAt the age of ten, most boys either scrape their knees play kickball or break their wrists playing football. I had it a little worse than most, I died, twice. I can remember that terrible day, when I was riding my pedal down my street, and I was having a grand time going up peoples driveways and speeding back down. It was a warm summers day round noontime, and I was on my way home for lunch. I was alone, and I was no more than a mile from my house. I went up this very steep driveway and began to turn around to get that omnipresent rush of going so fast down a hill that I felt like I was flying. I assailable my eyes to see a car pulling up the driveway just ahead of me. I jammed on my handlebar brakes, but it was too late, and to begin with I could do anything, I was actually flying through the air. I landed on my head, and to this day I dont remember what happened after my collision with that very inhospitable surface known as the road.I awoke to several nurses rushi ng around me and a doctor asking me what day it was. It was a few geezerhood later, and I had the worst headache and an upset stomach. It turned out that I had given myself a severe concussion, and I was in a comatose arouse for several hours and had to be revived from death twice. I was now paying for my adolescent stupidity as I threw up for what seemed like hours. I was vomitive profusely like this because of the beating my brain took from its impact with the road. A few days after the accident, I was reunited with what used to be my shiny, new, midnight blue Huffy BMX ride. The previous tire was flat, and the rim was bent up beyond repair. My seat was bent back and would probably take a machine to fix. In essence, my new bike was totaled.When I was feeling a little better, I learned that an elderly man was the first one to my side as he drove by my accident, and he had called the ambulance. He wasnt even the person who had been turning up the driveway and had hit me. That p erson had taken off, and to my knowledge, was probably just turning around at the wrong place at the wrong time.