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I took myself down to the hospital...
I was up in the air in the operating room...
I was a passenger in a car when we hit black ice...
I was in labor and the doctor gave me an epidural...
First of all, I arrived in a cemetery where my father (who died in 2003) was with Jacques Brel and Georges Brassens...
I had gone in for surgery on my left ear...
It was a hot summer day; a year after my grandmother and beloved brother had passed away...
I was standing on top of the hood of the car but did not sense a wreck...
My son's experience: He was wading in a mountain river in the summer, hit a pothole and got caught in river rapids...
My experience was rather boring...
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While having a heart attack and being in the doctor's clinic and being attended to, I saw an extremely bright light and experienced a great calming and thought to myself that I was going to die and thought 'Well, this is going to be a new experience...
There was a white bright light, very chilly weather - I lost my consciousness...
