them trembling and breaking.“I was not in physical pain but the drowning sensation was like being in a spin dryer. The doctors said I was under water for over three minutes because my lungs were full of water.“When I came to the surface, I wrapped myself around a tree and clung on.
It was so hard to work out what things were because nothing looked normal.”Maria had deep gashes to her chest and a terrible wound on her thigh – but amid the agony and confusion, she saw something that gladdened her heart.Maria says: “About 15 metres away, I could see a little head, and I thought, ‘My goodness, I think it’s Lucas.’ I heard him screaming for me so I went to get him.“In that moment, it felt like the most blessed vision I have ever had.
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