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My second son was about to be born...
My near-death experience happened 30 years ago, but I still can remember it as if it happened only yesterday...
I was trying to get home, running late for curfew, and driving home on county roads late at night...
I was on my way home from work...
My brother was sleeping on the adjacent bed, and my parents were sleeping in the next room...
My mother died and left her body during or shortly after WWII, which was before I was born...
I was age 15 and having an operation...
I had 2 NDEs a few days apart in early August of 1997...
I want to preface my experience by telling you about two earlier NDEs I had as a child, and to explain the events of my childhood that led up to my main NDE story...
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I was having open-heart surgery...
At the time of my NDE, I was around four months pregnant with my first child...
On 11/20/2019, I woke up because I was having severe nausea, and an aching in my left arm and lower left chest area...
