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I was sleeping in the passenger seat when we hit the back of a truck at 60 mph...
School had just let out and I was spending a little extra time in the cafeteria with a friend and my mom...
I was floating up with hand out towards this very bright light...
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I felt like I woke up and saw my body lying in the pool...
I only remember looking down, from the left hand corner of the room, on a bed with someone in it and people around it doing something to that person...
As a child of approximately 5 years, I went to a lake with my parents and a married couple, who were friends of theirs...
I saw beams of light and thought, am I dead...
I had gotten a piece of metal in my eye when I was working on my car...
I was on the Mississippi River and stepped off a sandbar without a life jacket...
This happened in 1974...
I was admitted in the hospital for ulcerations inside the bladder...
I was 19 and working for a dairy farmer...
