![]() She sustained some broken bones and a concussion, but I should have been dead, Dixie told me. Eventually the ambulance arrived and extracted her from the car. I tried to open my mouth and scream that I was still alive, but my body wasn’t moving and I couldn’t hear any sounds coming out of my mouth. I was somewhere above, and I could see the crowd and the car and myself inside it. The weird thing, she said, is that I was looking at the whole scene from outside my body. Dixie could hear one say, How is she? Is she dead? Dixie told me that at this point she freaked out. Soon some other onlookers crowded around the site. ![]() He rapped on the glass and called to her. Dixie saw a man running up to the car he was a truck driver who had apparently witnessed the accident. ![]() Finally the vehicle flipped over, crashed, and landed upside down.Īt this point, things got a little strange. On the way she felt the bump, bump, bump of the car hitting trees. Dixie saw her Saab Sonnett careen off the highway and plummet into a ravine. Due to some unmarked construction work, the highway narrowed and her car hit a groove and spun out of control. At the age of nineteen she was driving from North Carolina to Washington, D.C., to enroll in a journalism program. She told me about it on one of our first dates. ![]() The year before I met Dixie, the woman who was to become my wife, she was involved in a harrowing car accident. The Big Question, Considered in a New Way ![]()
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