Knee Boarding Experience

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One time I was spending time with what were supposed to be my Uncle and Aunt. During this time we went on to their boat and went knee-boarding. I learned to knee-board and around two hours later I was out on the water knee-boarding with some other family member, to this day I still have no clue who they were, and about one min in I fell and my uncle, who was driving the boat at the time, decided to keep going forward and would come pick me up in a minute. Due to this, when I fell the rope had wrapped around my leg, and freaked me out. When I instantly felt the rope wrap around my leg I looked down and saw something that looked green and black, the colors of the rope, and the handle heading up, and I instantly thought it was an alligator, because

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