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I killed myself but I was sent back...
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In 1974, I had a near-death experience...
In 1986 I was twenty-six years old...
At some point, I was looking at my body from above, as a nurse and a doctor stood by me...
It was just a week after a cesarean at age 23...
From the brain injury, I was in a coma...
I saw a light that looked like a moon, and it was shining down on me...
I fell during gym class and fractured my skull...
I was close, but not unusually so, to my mother's parents...
I was pregnant with my third child (Sofia)...
I was being prepped to go in to a routine hernia repair outpatient surgery...
It is only recently that I have recalled this event and I do not know why...
