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The man who was sitting behind me grabbed my hair and pulled my head back and cut my throat.

Real people.

At this time, I thought I'm probably dying, but I'm not going to.

No way I'm going to die.

Who faced death.

I basically was screaming and trying to hit him, and that's, he stabbed me in my neck and said,

look how easily I could kill you.

And live to tell how.

I'd been stabbed 17 times in my back. And that was the first

moment where I really thought, if I don't pretend to be dead, they're going to really kill me.

This is I survived. It's June 2004 in San Antonio, Texas.

Wayne and Mary live close to a railroad track that runs by their property.

I would sound asleep in my own bed and all of a sudden I woke up choking.

I couldn't catch my breath.

And it took me just a few seconds to realize that the air was contaminated.

I recognized the smell as chlorine, as strongest I'd ever smelled in my life. At 5.05 a.m., a train derailment ruptured a tank of chlorine gas. Leathal chlorine fumes began leaking into the atmosphere. Chlorine burns the moist tissue in the lungs and eyes. It was a very sickening smell.

The smell just seemed like it took over your breath.

It didn't give you a chance to really breathe because every time you had try to breathe,

it was just like something going in there and just taking your

insides, burning, stinging. Wayne's brother-in-law, Robbie, was also staying in the house.

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