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I was at my friends going away/birthday party and she had a pool so it was a pool party...
Prior to this experience: At age 6, 7 or 8, I was told in a dream that I would have an opportunity to live or die before I was 24 years old...
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...
Intense pain, loud noise, swiftly extracted through the top of my head to the uppermost left-hand corner of the ceiling of the surgical suite...
It was Halloween, 1971...
I was with my father, his friend, and the friend's older son who was 8 or 9 years old...
When I was younger, my parents were both working full-time jobs...
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It was midsummer 2005...
I heard my friends' voices; one said you better go and get his parents, this looks serious...
I was jumping off the top of a small dam into the river...
Growing Up I was born and raised in Queens, New York, the youngest daughter in a family of five children...
I was born with a congenital heart defect (DIA), which means there's a hole between the two atria of the heart...
