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Prior to the experience, I had a collapsed lung, so the doctors put a chest tube in...
My Trips to the Other side and Back My first NDE experience occurred in 1995 during emergency surgery...
The first thing I remember was seeing a huge, round, and colorful opening or pathway...
I had a near-death experience when I was around the age of 11...
I started to feel very cold, as if I were having fever chills...
I gave birth to my daughter after a long labor...
Although, I don't remember the exact date of my NDE, I remember that I was 21, and I had a 1-1/2 year old little boy...
I was not living a spiritual life and I had never experienced anything spiritual...
On June 26th, 1991, I woke up and ate cereal for breakfast...
My death experience (DE) was 2/14/1988; quite a while ago, but I remember it as if it were yesterday...
I was 34 weeks pregnant with my second child...
At the time of the incident, I was racing in the NASCAR weekly racing series at the Stockton 99 Speedway, in Stockton California...
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