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I'd never experienced all that before...
The first thing I recall is seeing my 'fiancé' beside my bed and then doctors/nurses surrounding the bed in a 'flurry of activity' and then seeing myself lying in the bed and being shocked by that...
The summer between my eighth and ninth year of school was the longest, and most difficult of my life...
I was spending the day at the river with my younger siblings, my mother, and some of her friends...
My story begins the night of my death...
I always suffer from diabetes comas, as I am diabetic since my childhood...
Okay, this is going to be hard...
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I lived in Zimbabwe, Africa and was driving back to boarding school with my cousin in the front passenger seat and two friends in the rear of the vehicle...
Every time I begin to tell the story one more time I am grasped by the numbness I seem to feel...
I had had a very rough time with having to have my wisdom teeth surgical removed because one had impacted and shattered...
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Christine R NDE Home Classification NDE 1217 Christine R NDE 3217 Experience Description An old man driving a camper turned left in front of us; we were doing fifty-five mph at the time of impact...
Katie A NDE Home Classification NDE 1264 Katie A NDE 3183 Experience Description I was in the kitchen eating nuts, when one cashew went down my windpipe...
