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I was unconscious, recovering from double-bypass heart surgery...
After a year abroad, I came back to Canada for the start of a new school year...
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I began writing this description of my near death experience on October 6th, 2007, thirty-five years after the experience...
When I started having my heart attack, as I was lying in the floor unable to move, I was afraid because I knew I was dying and there wasn't a thing I could do about it...
At age eight my father took me and my two brothers (ages ten and eleven) to go fishing in a river called Rio Guaiba in Porto Alegre, Brazil...
Following an accident it is difficult to pin down exactly when during the following week that I had the experience, as I was in surgery much and also in an Coma for the following week...
I was in a boarding high school...
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I was visiting a friend with Muscular Dystrophy, in Lake Tahoe...
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I was a latch-key kid and also the type that hated staying home...
I was 4 years old...
