Air was filtering out of my two collapsing lungs. Water rose, bubbling to enter, and I would have died of instantaneous pneumonia - something I have never heard of - if my hand had not got hold of a glass ashtray and, entirely apart from my personal decision, flung it.
Grace PaleyAbout author
- Author's profession: Writer
- Nationality: american
- Born: December 11, 1922
- Died: August 22, 2007
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