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This time it started in 2014 when I saw the number '11,11' everywhere and for weeks...
I was feeling deep despair caused by an incurable disease that was diagnosed by the doctors...
I was having a simple operation under general anesthesia, rendering me unconscious...
It was an ordinary day and I retired to bed at night as usual...
I woke up that morning feeling relatively okay...
My body went into cardiac arrest twice on the same September 2018 day due to alcohol abuse...
It happened on a cool October evening in 1965...
Before I start I want to say...
It was 1975 or 1976 and I was 7 or 8 years old...
When I was a teenager, I had issues with depression and anxiety...
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I was adopted twice; both adoptions were broken by abuse...
From the moment I saw my wife, there was no other for me...
