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There was the accident...
One night I was experimenting with a drug that a friend brought over called Angel Dust...
I flipped, hit my head and landed in the water...
I didn't see a light or deceased loved ones but I recall looking at (although I had no eyes or a body) a bluish green almost translucent membrane...
I was drowning and it was horrible, water was everywhere and I was desperately trying to breathe while at the same time grab onto the other child who had fallen into the swimming pool when our little raft overturned...
When I decided to give up trying to reach the shore and just let myself drown, suddenly everything seemed to stand totally still...
I was a Combat Marine, in a battle in which certain death seemed imminent...
I remember this as if it happened yesterday...
I was undergoing surgery for removal of an ovary when I found 'myself' above the operating table sitting on a bar attached to the ceiling...
It was summertime, July 1975, I was eight years old at the time...
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My sister and I were swimming with my cousin in her parents' swimming pool...
Even if I was so young when I had the experience I still remember as if it happened yesterday and still feel how it felt during the experience...
