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I had been at a party at my boyfriend's house and passed out from a drink one of his friends gave me...
Every time I begin to tell the story one more time I am grasped by the numbness I seem to feel...
I had gotten to the top of the stairs and put my hand on the door knob...
I was accosted, stabbed repeatedly and shot twice in the spine...
Some time after I went 'under' for the surgery, 'I' experienced a focused perception of being both just above and out of my body...
It was Wednesday morning and I was on my way to work...
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When I was about five, I went with my family to Duluth where we stayed at the Holiday Inn...
A spike in blood pressure caused a blood vessel to burst in my nose...
I was on medical leave from work and just had my third knee surgery because of an infection...
I was shown my newborn baby boy - felt love for him - then I blacked out...
In 1973, at the age of twenty, I was in a serious automobile accident...
When I was six years old I contracted diphtheria, was taken to hospital where I stopped breathing and died...
