"I think I know what you mean, about feeling like you were at peace and all. I think I felt something similar when that woman was beating me up, or just afterward. This is probably gonna sound a little weird, but during the worst of it, it was sort of like I...mentally stepped out of my body, I guess is the best way to describe it. I mean, I could still feel the pain, but I just pretended it was somebody else's pain. I just focused my brain on the idea that it was someone else getting beat up, not me. And then, after it was over, I just lay there and had that peaceful feeling, despite the pain. I think I just came to accept my situation. I didn't have any anger or hatred for the woman who attacked me. Instead, I think I kind of pitied her. What must she have gone through for her to just flip out like that?" She shook her head in resignation as the memory came to a close. She would probably never understand why that woman had felt the need to attack her.