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I had started to bleeding two days before...
I was standing on top of the hood of the car but did not sense a wreck...
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I was in the hospital in labor...
According to the ambulance driver, I was de-fibrillated three times before my heart started beating again...
My partner and I were walking calmly down the street during the midday...
I had gone with my dad to pick up my car at this motel where I had lent it to a person I knew hoping to sell it...
It was the beginning of the Christmas holiday where I worked...
On Sunday evening around 8:30 pm and after my parents left I collapsed in my bed...
I was still a young child and of an age where one has no cares in the world...
It was as if I was seeing through a kaleidoscope (again, not precisely what really happened, but as close as I can get with words)...
I was in so much pain, so scared, so helpless...
As the rolling waves of fever and convulsions increased and I became more and more detached from the pain and suffering I was experiencing with measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox and scarlet fever in my little kindergarten body I entered a place that has ...
