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I was having a 'simple knee surgery...
My first thought was that I was looking up at the bluest sky and fluffiest white clouds I had ever seen...
I poised myself sitting upright against the wall, near the glass pane I had just broken...
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I had to have a biopsy of my bladder as an inflammation showed up on the ultra sound...
In 1992 I had lung surgery...
My mother at the time was away at a camp with her special education class...
I was driving in an ice storm and a huge truck was sitting across the highway and I could not stop...
This is going to be difficult, as it's probably going to bring me to tears as I recall it, but here it is in detail: A dank, gray November night, 1991...
I had a car accident and was pronounced 'dead'...
My father was an alcoholic and quite violent...
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I was simply having my wisdom teeth out -- a simple operation taking ten minutes...
I was out drinking with my ex-boyfriend and we were driving in his car after we left the bar...
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