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It was the morning of 02/15/2020...
I was nearing my fourth year in the U...
My swimming teacher instructed the class to swim to the other end of the pool with a kickboard and by holding it with one hand...
When I was about 4 or 5 years old, one of my favorite things to do was to go outside on 'trash day...
My NDE took place in 2013, in the hospital...
I was strapped onto a T-Bar in the surgery prepping me...
This experience plays back in my mind like a movie, still today...
I was drowning in a rip current...
At the age of 9 years old, I was sleeping like other nights but saw a strange dream...
What happened from my perspective: I was shooting up meth with my boyfriend at the time...
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Many times throughout my young childhood I would wake up in the middle of the night with a feeling of extreme emotion in my chest, and found myself rising above my bed all the way to the ceiling, and would just hover there...
I was struck by a yellow pick up truck...
