Dig your nails into the earth and don’t let go.
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There I would be, hanging on, my fingernails filled with dirt.Īs the driver continued swerving this way and that way into pitch-black nothingness, I prayerfully repeated my plan: Jump.
I imagined myself being discovered at daybreak by my favorite English professor heading to her office to start her day. Then I would hang onto the edge of that steep incline with all my strength. I decided that if the driver would take the curve too fast and lose control, I would jump out the open window. That’s the moment I began plotting and planning my survival. As the wind blew my hair back with a powerful force, it dawned on me that my window was open. I was paralyzed in the backseat, gripping the door handle so tightly that it felt like my fingernails were bleeding.
I desperately wanted say, “Okay man, that’s enough,” or “C’mon, turn the lights back on,” but I could not speak. One wrong turn of the wheel would change everything. Although I could not see the drop off that plummeted into a deep ravine, I knew it was there. I could feel the car escalating to a higher elevation with every sharp bend. I’d always chosen the back entrance due to this particular road’s narrow shoulder and dangerous curves. The driver of the vehicle announced he would be turning off the headlights “for fun.”Įven in the light of day this particular road was quite difficult to maneuver. We’d just entered the mile-long entrance to the college when the unexpected happened.
We played pool at a downtown pub for a few hours, and then headed back to campus. So when he asked me to go out with some of his friends late one night, I thought, ‘Why not?’ It would be fun to hang out with a different crowd than usual. We had a class together, hung out at a few parties, and I’d helped him on a paper at the campus computer lab.
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