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I remember nothing until just before it happened...
In about 1945 and about age 7 years old, I had my tonsils removed under ether for an anesthetic...
I was on the stretcher going down the hallway of the hospital...
I need to start by saying that I was born with double pneumonia and did not get to go home until 6 weeks after I was born...
During a car journey coming back to Nazca, which is south of Lima, I crashed almost head on with a bus carrying passengers...
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I slept in a bedroom with my sisters...
I took a very large overdose, which caused a stroke...
My father had died of a heart attack in 1988 and my mum started drinking heavily...
My NDE occurred when I crashed a party of teenagers older than myself...
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I was in my first year at Washington University...
I inherited horrible genes for teeth from both parents...
I was surfing on a fine winter's day...
