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I had not been well for about 1 week...
I, Ricardo AH, give the following testimony: On Saturday July 26, 2014, in my parish, around 3:10 pm I was finishing lunch when I suddenly felt a sharp pain in my stomach...
I went into convulsions, didn't realize I had just swallowed strychnine and was in state of panic...
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I was a latch-key kid and also the type that hated staying home...
This was written only a couple months after the experience...
In December 1979, after four months in India, I became very sick with amoebic dysentery, food borne hepatitis A, and dengue fever...
My husband and I were riding our motorcycle when we had a terrible accident...
I was born with a congenital heart defect (DIA), which means there's a hole between the two atria of the heart...
In 2005, I went to the hospital because I tried to drink a cup of coffee and where I thought it was, I couldn’t grab it...
I am recording this experience on behalf of our son, Ben, who shared this NDE with us many times...
I was 16 years old and born into a practicing, Catholic family...
