The ice cracked under my feet. A moment of terror, a moment of weightlessness and then the shock of the cold water rushed up around me. I paralyzed me. I couldn't tell up from down, left from right. The water hugged my body. Constricting. I kicked furiously hoping that this way is up, trying to free myself from its grasp. The air is even colder than the water, but I welcomed it's embrace. Even as I dragged myself out onto the banks the water still held on. My waterlogged coat kept the water's icy finger's grip on me. But I had won. I was free. Even now I can still remember the feel…