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This experience happened in 1978 when I was 10 years old...
During childbirth I was given an epidural and immediately afterwards I felt more comfortable but not pain free...
I was out with friends as a youngster when, driving down Lake Hill, the brakes of the VW Beetle we were in failed and we went straight into a rock...
During an echocardiogram of my heart subsequent to an MI, I became quite tired...
I was taken unconscious to the hospital at age twelve by an undisclosed illness...
I was a healthy child and I slept normally...
We were celebrating a birthday, the whole family, and at the end we drank Queimada Gallega, which is a hot drink, from Galicia originally, which is prepared by heating up whiskey from grape liquor with lemon and sugar...
I had just finished a long semester of school and went to visit a friend...
I went to bed so that I could make Thanksgiving dinner the next day...
In the summer of 1985 I was at a beach in California with my family...
I'm an old man...
One day when I was about 11 or 12 (this is my best estimate of my age at the time) I was swimming alone in our pool...
