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On September 24, 1963, my family was supposed to move house to Oran (Algeria)...
After giving birth to my second child I hemorrhaged while waiting to deliver the placenta...
I had gone in for surgery on my left ear...
For reasons I can't explain at this moment, I had attempted suicide at the age of nineteen...
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It was three months into being diagnosed with Burkitt's Lymphoma...
I was in hospital due to Anorexia Nervosa...
I remember a severe tightness/pain in my chest, and gasping for air with the feeling I wasn't getting air...
It started, I was, I want to say 'floating', but it felt more like I was being pulled backwards through space I was not scared I felt very peaceful...
I was driving from Corpus Christi, Texas to my home in San Antonio on a wet and rainy Sunday afternoon...
When I was five, my mom worked at the Pageant of the Masters show in Laguna Beach...
I went to a cave and saw my long lost relatives...
The most vivid part of the experience was at one point I could see my mother holding me in her arms...
