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As I started to walk, I told them I was feeling awful...
On May 7, 1978 at about 10:20 p...
I was around 5 years old playing in a field with my step brother...
I was standing outside at night with two friends when I suddenly felt faint...
I experienced cardiac arrest while on the operating room table for a stent implant...
I remember a police officer slapping me across the face, telling me to wake up...
I was walking toward a beautiful, bright, white light...
I lost all bodily strength in an instant...
I was pulled from my body...
I was surfing on a boogie board in Hawaii...
I had taken 24 pills in a four hour period to get high...
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I was swimming in the lake on a very hot summer day (I was not a good swimmer then nor am I now) and I got tired and thought I was close enough to shore that I could stand up but unknown to me there was a very deep drop off...
