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Have you ever been in a car accident? What happened?

Yup. When I was 5-ish, a bee flew in the window and stung the driver on the face. We collided straight on into a big tree on the side of the road. I was in the front passenger seat (no airbag) wearing my lap belt but with the shoulder belt behind me. My face hit the dash just enough to bust a nerve in one of my front teeth. (The tooth turned half-gray. weird. It fell out maybe a little earlier than usual and my adult teeth grew in without any issues though.) Amazingly, the rest of my face was fine. Unfortunately, the force of the lap belt restraining me ruptured my colon. They did the whole surgery thing, removed a few inches of it and sewed me back up. I bounced back to completely healthy in no time flat, and not really even feeling all that traumatized, as only little kids can. To this day I still have a vertical scar running next to my belly button from the surgery.

(Day 5 of 30)