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In the summer of 1996, I was 25 years old and living in Lake Louise, Alberta Canada...
It started out a night like any other weekend night...
For years, I was an obnoxiously militant atheist...
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I was surfing in Florida and the waves were around 8 feet high, which is bigger than I am used to surfing...
It was the spring before my 11th birthday...
I gave blood at my church's bloodmobile...
That evening, my mother-in-law and her mother were over at my house with my husband and new, baby son...
My mother, Rose G, was in the intensive care unit (ICU) after her spleen ruptured...
I was a machine operator responsible for running and operating a thermoformer or press that makes bubble wrap...
I arrived at work not feeling well, but not bad enough to miss work...
I was attacked by a man with dissociative disorder...
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I experienced an imprint of what was a body of light above my body...
