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I was teaching arts and crafts in a school for developmentally disabled children...
I was fourteen years old and I was being operated on for appendicitis at San Giovanni Hospital in Rome...
As I started to walk, I told them I was feeling awful...
I was walking toward a beautiful, bright, white light...
I was pulled from my body...
I was 16 and with my boyfriend...
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I had an automobile accident while I was driving alone...
I was a passenger in a car and we were hit head-on by another vehicle...
I had open heart surgery, and even though I had died on the table, and even though things were just not feeling right to me, I was sent home...
I had been feeling ill and in pain for weeks...
I had two experiences, one when I was 15, during one of the many surgeries I underwent after a serious traffic accident, and later one when I was 22, when I was giving birth to my daughter...
In 1968, at 13 years old, I was diagnosed with a goiter...
