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I was clinically dead for twenty seven seconds...
I can remember the emergency medical technicians saying I was dead, and discussing the use of charcoal...
My life at that time was in ruins: abused almost by everyone I knew; no self-respect, not married and pregnant at eighteen...
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I was in the hot tub when I got dizzy...
I had been seriously ill for several weeks, but the doctors didn't acknowledge that...
I was a passenger asleep in a car that my friend was driving, he fell asleep at the wheel and veered over to the opposite side of the road, we hit another car head on...
I went to reach for the bubble bath but somehow my perception was impaired...
I had a double mastectomy and tug-flap reconstruction...
I was a passenger in an automobile which, due to the driver having a seizure behind the wheel, crashed head on into a tree on the side of the road...
I had a general anesthetic for a female sterilization operation...
I had a caesarean section with my second child...
There were about six, maybe seven, of us kids, the oldest maybe thirteen...
