"A thought came into my head, momentarily paralyzing me: these might be your last few minutes. My clumsy gloved hands scrabbled uselessly at the edges of the neoprene trapping me in the boat. As I realized I couldn’t release the spray skirt that way either, panic, regret, and sorrow flooded my brain." For @longreads, Maggie Slepian relates her near-death experience and its aftermath.
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