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I was in my grandmother's kitchen...
I found myself outside of Creation, in a gray immensity with no end...
The first thing I recall is seeing my 'fiancé' beside my bed and then doctors/nurses surrounding the bed in a 'flurry of activity' and then seeing myself lying in the bed and being shocked by that...
I was admitted for surgery with high blood-pressure problems...
During my time before surgery, two or three minutes, a medical student from the same college were I studied computer programming was in the room...
I was in a coma for seven days suffering from encephalitis during this time I had my NDE...
In Ivrea (Torino), there is the house of my mother's grandparents...
I used to be addicted to morphine, codeine, and painkillers like that and overdosed on morphine and codeine when I was eighteen...
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I feel so tacky saying this since it's so stereotypical, but there was always a bright white light...
In April of 1995, I was a newly divorced mother of two boys, ages seven and two...
I heard wonderful music, and saw a tunnel of light that I traversed at a dazzling speed...
One of my earliest memories 'Drowning' (Washington): When I was about five years of age, my oldest sister Cherline took my younger sister Lori and I to a local swimming hole in Pasco, Washington...
