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After I put the seatbelt on and checked that the vehicle was filled with gas, I drove to Dubai...
In the year of 1995, I was living in Costa Rica with the father of my children...
Kohn A NDE Home Classification NDE 4209 Kohn A NDE 8078 Experience Description On April 25, 2016, my longtime girlfriend died of a drug overdose...
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Richy R NDE Home Classification NDE 4228 Richy R NDE 8115 Experience Description I was leaving a learning center for adults, when I was hit by this bus...
Alan P NDE Home Classification NDE 4253 Alan P NDE 8156 Experience Description In the early summer of 1971, I and three other children were playing on a large pile of sand that was to be used in pouring a cement pad at our house...
It was like any other day...
Katie V NDE Home Classification NDE 4304 Katie V NDE 8231 Experience Description I had awoken from laprascopic surgery and was in recovery...
I was picking up my daughter from school...
In the dead of night, September 6, 1965, Hurricane Betsy had smashed into the Louisiana coastline and the eye of the storm was reported to hit my hometown straight-on...
I bled out on the floor of the emergency room when the tube burst from the ectopic pregnancy...
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During a car journey coming back to Nazca, which is south of Lima, I crashed almost head on with a bus carrying passengers...
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During my second semester of college, I battled depression due to overwhelmingly stressful circumstances...
