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I was swimming in a river with some friends of the family...
Just after they smashed my face with a rock, I felt myself raising from a horizontal position and slowly rising from the surface to an upright position...
When the illness began it was thought I had the flu, but as time went by and the fever worsened I was taken to the hospital for blood test and rheumatic fever was found...
I was born in Hawthorne, California, have an older brother and younger sister...
I was looking down at the hospital bed where I was lying...
I started playing the 'choking game'...
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My first experience was a feeling of floating...
I was undergoing surgery for removal of an ovary when I found 'myself' above the operating table sitting on a bar attached to the ceiling...
I fell out of an attic onto a concrete garage floor head first...
It was a normal day...
As I was put in an ambulance, I was above watching what was going on...
I was in my high school swim class and I had told the instructor that I did not float the way the other kids did - black people have documented issues with buoyancy due to bone density and some other physical attributes...
