I was about to go into a MRI machine, and its soft hum calmedme enough to help me gather at least some of my wits. I had been feelingfragile and emoti...onal for a while, making it hard to think, but I wasable to use a grounding technique I had learned last year.I tried to organize my thoughts. I remembered being in an accident, andthen having a strange dream that I was dying, and somehow my spirit leftmy body, and went to the next room where they were working on a dyinggirl. I watched her spirit. Chuck looked off to the side attempting to hide his smile. She was really laying it on thick.“You can’t do that,” the President said.“She’s a criminal. Arrest her,” the banker said.Pretending to wipe tears from under her eyes, she said, “Please don’t arrest me. I said I’d stop. I’ll even tell every one of those criminals to stop working.”The President said, “You can’t do that. It would destroy this country.”“Now you’ve got the idea. If I do what this idiot is telling me to do, it would destroy. “Not really,” Jack answered.Checking his finger for a wedding ring, she was pleased to see that it was bare. She asked, “So are you dating any of your neighbors?”“No,” Jack said shaking his head. He added, “Most of my neighbors are retired. Rich and his wife are a little older than me. They’ve got two young boys. Johnny and Abby are closer to my age. The librarian is in her forties, but everyone else is retired.”“So you were serious about them being old ladies,” Melissa said looking across the. And then he didsomething that I assumed no land dweller would ever do. He didn't rushto attack me or swim away in fear, but waved 'Hello!'"He seemed surprised to see me, but delighted. I waved back, and weswam toward each other. He couldn't speak, but we communicated crudelythrough hand gestures. It was then that I began to realize he was infact a human, but even then I wasn't afraid, and was as curious abouthim as he was about me..."We swam all around the corals, pointing out different.