When he was nine years old, Vollmann's six-year-old sister drowned in a pond while under his supervision, and he felt responsible for her death.

Her death had a big impact on me," especially since her other sister had earlier drowned in an accident.

A sister or friend drowned.

Afterward, when they asked him how he'd known his sister was drowning, it turned out that only he had heard her scream.

And the old sister, the one who drowned in her own tub of water?

The next day, the villagers were shocked to see two islands at the spot where the two sisters had drowned.

Mr. Serrano survived the trip and was also placed in Virginia, but his sister drowned.

Then his little sister drowned in the same pond.

I was there when her sister drowned, when her brother got banned for good from the church.

That was when my sister drowned.