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On December 29, 2007, I had a phone call from a doctor telling me that I needed to immediately come back into the hospital to have an emergency surgery...
It started out a night like any other weekend night...
For years, I was an obnoxiously militant atheist...
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It was late at night...
It was the spring before my 11th birthday...
This is my best recollection of what I experienced at age 6 when I was drowning in a Wisconsin lake...
I arrived at work not feeling well, but not bad enough to miss work...
I was six years old and was very ill with scarlet fever...
I was attacked by a man with dissociative disorder...
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I had a near-death experience (NDE) when I was 3 years old...
I did see a flash of light...
