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When I was younger, my parents were both working full-time jobs...
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It was midsummer 2005...
Growing Up I was born and raised in Queens, New York, the youngest daughter in a family of five children...
I was born with a congenital heart defect (DIA), which means there's a hole between the two atria of the heart...
The morning of January 15, 1987, my partner was up early as usual and soon after leaving, he burst back into our Lilliputian room, manic with excitement...
Six months before my NDE, I had an incredibly, peculiar dream with elements of deeply religious symbology...
Dying felt like falling backwards into blackness; then it felt like I was sitting up out of my body, then standing facing away from myself...
