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I was having my third c-section, 35 weeks into my pregnancy...
In 2017, after returning from the vet where Crystal (cat) had been treated for renal failure, she hid behind an armchair against the wall, where it was dark and quiet...
My teenage daughter told me that she wanted to be baptized and become a Christian...
I was waiting for hip surgery while on the operating table...
Lower back surgery was sceduled for the morning of February 23, 2015...
I saw the movie 'Mary Poppins' and thought how much I hated myself and my life...
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On 12/04/2020, I underwent surgery to repair an injury to the tendons of my rotator cuff...
On 4/21/1976, I made plans with the employees of my new department to celebrate my arrival from Germany after a 17-month apprenticeship of new equipment and service to be implemented at the company in Brazil...
My near-death experience happened 30 years ago, but I still can remember it as if it happened only yesterday...
My mother died and left her body during or shortly after WWII, which was before I was born...
I had 2 NDEs a few days apart in early August of 1997...
I was having open-heart surgery...
