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I was riding my Harley motorcycle home from work about 9:00 pm...
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I tripped at the top of a flight of stairs and fell down to the bottom of the stairs - all the way on my back...
As a boy of about 13, I was standing on a bridge that was also a dam...
As I was slipping out of consciousness, it was as if a curtain of light were descending...
While suffering with a bad case of the flu, I was lying on the couch when suddenly everything went black...
Everything in my life had culminated to a point where other options were not working for me...
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I had lymph node cancer...
I was in school, skipping class with two of my friends by hiding in the bathroom waiting for teachers to leave the hallway...
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It was the end of the day on my fourteenth birthday...
Months prior to my experience, I had gone through an abortion...
I began the morning throwing up in the toilet...
I carried my child several weeks post-term, so labor was induced...
