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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...
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...
I had been ill from a recent operation I had had...
After experiencing a 'non-survivable' heart attack, I passed out while being loaded into a helicopter for transport to a hospital...
Sunday afternoon on a beautiful sunny day in Georgia, my family and friends were at a local lake...
On 5th May 1999, at my work in the University of Tel-Aviv, I had a severe heart attack...
It was beautiful, indescribable really...
It was summertime, July 1975, I was eight years old at the time...
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