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Danny's first near death experience occurred simultaneously with his birth. That is to say, he was born warm, but unbreathing, and tiny, more than a month premature.

The second was when he was still a baby. It was easy for Jack and Maddie to get carried away during their holiday arguments, and perhaps that wouldn't have been so bad if they hadn't gotten so carried away that they put Danny's baby carrier down on a snowdrift. Babies don't retain heat as well as adults.

When he was four, Danny had his first accident with his parents' technology. Really, they should have known better than to put their ectoplasm samples in an old juice bottle in the fridge, and yet…

When he was five, Dash Baxter pushed him off the monkey bars on the school playground. This was a common occurrence. Less common was the way Danny fell, head first, and with just enough velocity in the horizontal direction to reach the wooden beam that kept the pea gravel contained. He only broke his arm.

The second time Danny broke a bone he was seven. Clipped by a drunk driver while walking to the park with his mother.

When he was nine, the fever should have killed him.

The grocery store near his house was robbed one day when he was ten. The gun jammed.

He was eleven the second time. His parents didn't take him or Jazz shopping with them anymore.

And Danny was just fourteen when—

Throughout it all, he was told, you're lucky it wasn't worse.