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I saw a light...
When I was twenty-eight years old, I was out on a date with a boyfriend that I had broken up with previously...
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I stole my dad's car and drag raced a friend on a back road...
On the night I came into the hospital I had both my lungs filling up with blood...
It was on Monday, September 3rd, I went to work as usual and felt as if I was coming down with tonsillitis, so I went to the pharmacy and bought over the counter pain killers...
On the afternoon of January 10th 2007 I began to feel kind of funky, like maybe I had eaten something bad...
It was as though I was stuck in a clean, approximately eight feet diameter, pipe with the brightest white light at one end and completely pitch dark at the other end...
During basic training in the army I became sick which was later diagnosed as a pneumonia...
This whole experience felt like it may have been an hour in length in total...
My friend, my daughter and I went to the Black Rock desert for a festival...
Woman's World Article, May 16, 2006...
I had to run into the sea to rescue my (profoundly deaf) daughter...
