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I think my experience is hard to believe, yet it is real...
It was one night, I was asleep at home around 11 pm when the phone started ringing, it was my sister-in-law and she was crying...
July 1, 1988, I was a private in the United States Marine Corps, having just graduated boot camp in April...
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Eight years ago, I was on life support because I had complete organ failure...
Having been raised in fundamentalist background, I was taught the standard doctrines of Christianity...
My experience happened when I was 6 years old and under anesthesia for an emergency appendectomy...
I had a very bad drug problem at the time...
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LYING IN BED...
My first memory is of a dark tunnel, either being pulled or "sucked" very quickly towards an extremely bright white light, so bright that I was afraid that I would be incinerated, or at the very least blinded if I was to enter the light...
When I was 15-years-old, I began suffering from a strange psychological illness that confounded doctors...
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Very early one morning, the sun was just rising, I awoke in my crib because I heard an odd loud noise coming from the living room...
Looking back on my life, I now know that I have had heart problems from an early age...
