I was being lifted off the earth, outside fear and torment, being part of something greater than myself. I was lifted out of the dark cell of my own mind to become part of someone else.
It was the first step outward to the universe, beyond the universe, because in it and with it we merged to recreate and perpetuate the human spirit.
As when men to keep from being swept overboard in the storm clutch at each other's hands to resist being torn apart, so our bodies fused a link in the human chain that kept us from being swept into nothing.