I Was Half Dead - Agnes Takacs

Born in Hungary now lives the Florida dream

For years, she wrote stories privately, never publishing them, keeping her words close as if they belonged only to her.

Until now.

In this book, Agnes shares a story inspired by the truth she knows best: life can change from one day to the next, in an instant, without warning, and sometimes without mercy. But change can also bring unexpected strength, second chances, and the kind of hope you don't understand until you've had to rebuild.

This is her first time sharing her work with the public-an honest, heartfelt debut from a woman who has truly lived what she writes.

Prologue: The Space Between Breaths

There is a moment-just before panic fully takes hold-when the mind goes strangely quiet. It is not peace. It is not calm. It is something suspended in between.

That was where I lived for two days.

In that suspended space between fear and surrender, between consciousness and something else I still cannot fully name, I existed in fragments. I did not know if I was