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It was Saturday, January 11, 1986, and winter in Chicago, Illinois...
On Halloween night in 2012, I was riding a moped to my friend's house to hang-out...
About a few weeks prior to the near-death experience, I had this feeling that I would die soon...
Traffic accident with head-on collision...
Myself and another kid where playing in a garage that also had an old refrigerator inside of it...
On March 5, 1988, I was in an auto accident...
I was a fairly young boy scout; I am guessing 10-11 years old...
At the time of the incident, I was racing in the NASCAR weekly racing series at the Stockton 99 Speedway, in Stockton California...
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My teenage daughter told me that she wanted to be baptized and become a Christian...
On 4/21/1976, I made plans with the employees of my new department to celebrate my arrival from Germany after a 17-month apprenticeship of new equipment and service to be implemented at the company in Brazil...
I was on my way home from work...
I had 2 NDEs a few days apart in early August of 1997...
