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In 2000 I was shot in the right temple point blank with a twenty-two caliber handgun...
Greg D NDE Home Classification NDE 1871 Greg D NDE 3934 Experience Description I stood at the top of the stairs at work looking downward and felt lightheaded...
I was on my way to work at 3:30 am on October 16, 2006...
A friend and I were driving to Vermont one day...
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We were unloading some crates onto a barge several hundred yards off the coast near the mouth of the Mekong river (we called it the Saigon river at the time)...
I went in for a scheduled surgery on July 10th, 2008...
I remember a few days ago dropping off a friend and driving down the road...
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In the parking lot of a local bar as I was getting on the back of my boyfriend's motorcycle a patron told me, 'Don't get on that bike...
I was sixteen years old, history of emotional, psychical and sexual abuse, intoxicated, involved in a severe motor vehicle accident that threw me a hundred and thirty-eight feet, landing on the pavement face first...
