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After I fell, I felt a tightening in my chest as I attempted to get up...
I was five years old and had pneumonia...
Somewhere about mid-May 2004 life as I knew it I had begun a spiral downhill fast...
I laid down for a nap, with a request to my wife to wake me at 3 pm if she didn't hear me up before then - I vividly remember noticing the digital clock in our bedroom showing 1:50pm...
On both occasions a being of white light appeared to me, took my hand, and took me to a door that opened on its own...
The physician arrived in response to the call for help from my husband who had just arrived with my two older daughters...
I was ten years old and swimming in a public pool (couldn't swim well)...
It was just right and one of the few memories of a perfect time that I keep...
I was in the hospital after the car accident and all of a sudden I felt that I was unable to breath...
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I got married on the 15th of January 1970...
I was playing in the water near the shore with my brother when I stepped into a big hole and went under...
I was in the labor room of a clinic in my city trying to give birth to my son after twelve hours of labor...
