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strange but true stories tales from the
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light side the dark side and the other
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side I'm Steve white what lies beyond
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this life what is on the other side is
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it pearly gates and puffy clouds or a
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higher state of consciousness our story
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today was sent to us by a young lady who
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says that she caught a glimpse of the
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other side during a near-death
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experience in 2016
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she says she died came back went back
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across before returning to her earthly
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body after a message from a loved one
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and she decided to share her story with
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us before I tell you my story I need to
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give you the back story first I was six
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years old when I met Todd I was raised
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in a very abusive and neglectful family
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Todd was 21 at the time he lived next
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door to me and our shared duplex Todd
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was my lifeline my best friend in the
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whole world when I needed comfort he was
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there for me when I needed someone to
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listen and let me know that I was loved
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he was there for me he fed me when I was
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hungry this was in the 1990s before
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anybody really had internet and I called
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him on the phone so many times and
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whenever I needed him
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he was there he was a huge part of my
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life and was the kindest gentlest soul I
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have ever known
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fast forward about nine years Todd had
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moved away
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it wasn't something he wanted to do but
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it was forced to do and we also moved
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around the same time so I lost contact
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with him completely I wondered as a 15
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year old child what had happened to my
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best friend we had such a strong soul
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level connection despite the age
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difference no matter how crazy it may
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sound we could actually hear one
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another's thoughts if I was thirsty I
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didn't need to tell him he just knew it
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and he got me a glass of water without
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me having to say anything it's hard to
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explain but we had such a strong
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telepathic connection I wish I could
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explain it I'm a logical person
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I like having an explanation for things
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but in this case I'm at a bit of a loss
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fast forward again to 2016 when the
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story I want to tell takes place I was
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31 years old then and I remember dying I
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was in bed one night around 10:30 and I
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was awakened by a voice that spoke to me
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telepathically and it gave me this very
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specific instruction go to the grocery
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store I'm not one to listen to
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disembodied voices and I do not
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encourage others to either but it felt
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important somehow and it resonated
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inside of my soul in a way I can't
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explain in words so I listened it just
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felt right so I got up got dressed and I
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drove to the nearby 24-hour grocery
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store thinking it was only because I
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needed some groceries by the time I got
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to the market it was after 11 p.m.
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I am NOT a late-night shopper by any
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stretch I walked through the produce
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section towards the bakery I put a few
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loaves of bread in the cart I might as
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well take care of things I need while
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I'm here right next to the bakery is a
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little refrigerated section and I went
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to grab some hummus it just felt like
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that was the right thing to do even
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though I can't explain how or why I knew
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this logically I saw a man standing
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there looking at the hummus I doubled
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back and for a few seconds I felt
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confused I became aware that I
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recognized this man somehow
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I knew him again I can't explain it I
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didn't even have to see his face I was
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looking at the back of his head but
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still I recognized him immediately after
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all these years todd todd I cried out I
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was not recognizing anything physical it
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was purely psychic I could read his
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energy and I just knew him he had a lot
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of gray hair that I wouldn't recognize
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but my own soul just knew who he was he
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turned around instantly as soon as he
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heard my voice and he made eye contact
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with me Todd I gasped and I abandoned my
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car to my purse just ran towards him he
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had no idea who I was I ran to him and I
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held on to him and I began to cry I had
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missed my best friend for so long he
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didn't hug me back immediately he still
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was unsure about who I was I pulled back
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and I tried to stop crying
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but I'm a very emotional person I
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couldn't help but cry Todd it's me it's
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Erin
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you're sweet girl he always called me
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his sweet girl he pulled back and made
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eye contact with me oh my god Erin it's
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you now he started to cry I mean he and
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I were both sobbing uncontrollably right
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there in front of the hummus he cried
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and when I say cried I mean he literally
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cried as hard as I did my sweet girl
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you're all grown up he said as he kissed
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my face and looked at me intently it's
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me I cried and made eye contact with him
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I missed you
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where have you been it took a few
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moments for him to compose himself
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enough to say
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sweet girl it was not up to me I sent
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you so many letters though did you get
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them no I never got any letters I
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thought you were dead or something
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tears kept welling up and I held onto
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him for dear life I mean here it was my
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very best friend in the entire world no
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I sent you so many letters and I tried
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to find you
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I would never leave you all alone and in
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that situation you were in but I just
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couldn't help it he cried and held me in
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his arms I never thought you would I
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told him he had been in town visiting
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friends with his wife and two daughters
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even though it was late he insisted I go
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back with him and meet his daughters and
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see his wife his wife had known me
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before they moved away and I was happy
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to see her as well Aaron I don't believe
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for a second that this is a coincidence
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I don't believe in coincidences
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I never go grocery shopping at night we
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were meant to meet again
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Tod told me I had to agree I mean it was
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a disembodied voice that got me moving
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to the grocery store at a time that I
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never go grocery shopping so yeah there
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was a reason we were brought together it
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wasn't just by chance
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so we bonded a little bit watching TV
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and eating way too much pizza the five
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of us together the next day we said
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goodbye to each other but we promised to
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stay in touch and that we would get
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together soon as well
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we both cried again but I believed we
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would see each other soon he promised to
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call I kissed him goodbye and he and his
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family drove home which was a few states
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away two weeks went by and hadn't heard
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from Tod at all I knew something was
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wrong again I'm very sensitive and I
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could just feel it
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I decided to call his home phone number
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late at night I'm a bit of an insomniac
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and I was awake anyway so I dialed his
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number I kept waiting for somebody to
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answer but he didn't but someone else
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did
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hello I didn't recognize her voice his
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todd home i asked her i apologize for
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the late hour that i was calling
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who is this an older woman's voice asked
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me it's Erin I replied over the line
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Erin she asked aloud I know who that is
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I heard a woman's voice say in the
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background I recognized it as Todd's
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wife and she took the phone from the
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older woman hello she said over the
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phone is Todd home I know it's late but
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I thought he would have called me by now
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she began to cry and there was a long
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pause before she could answer me Erin
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I'm so sorry Todd
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died suddenly two days ago she broke off
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into more tears over the phone line I
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was in shock what I cried I'm so sorry I
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should have called you to let you know
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but it's been so she just couldn't
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finish the sentence I went into complete
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and total shock
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no I'm sorry I'm so so sorry this is all
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my fault
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I told her and then I hung up the phone
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I couldn't actually handle the pain of
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reality in this moment what my best
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friend is dead and gone right after we
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got together for the first time in years
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no I thought to myself I couldn't seem
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to handle this much pain I went into
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shock and couldn't accept that my best
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friend in the world was dead I dropped
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to my knees on the floor and I curled up
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into a fetal position right there in the
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bedroom I rolled over on my left side I
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just began to scream and cry
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hysterically and then I heard my cell
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phone rang and I answered it
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it was Todd's wife again
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Aaron Todd loved you very much and he
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would not want you to blame yourself for
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this
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she told me I often blame myself for
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things that aren't my fault like many
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people who were raised in abusive homes
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tend to do I am so sorry I cried over
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the phone line me too honey
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she told me we both cried and I hung up
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the phone I was in shock
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he couldn't be gone could he I thought
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to myself I immediately deleted Todd's
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phone number because I just couldn't
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bear to see it on my phone again I went
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into shock for several minutes and I
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rocked back and forth and pain on the
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floor I told myself that it wasn't true
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but I was just lying to myself after
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several minutes the pain of reality hit
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me like a thousand bricks striking me in
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my chest I was crushed no this isn't
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real it's not true I tried to tell
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myself but I couldn't stop reality from
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creeping up on me I was at once hit with
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so much emotional and spiritual pain
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that I couldn't catch my breath he's
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gone he can't be gone Kenny and come
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back I cried to myself as I rocked back
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and forth on the floor at my small
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bedroom he can't be gone I kept saying
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over and over and over we just found
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each other again this is so wrong then I
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completely lost it I cried so hard I
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couldn't breathe I couldn't think I
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could not exist as a human being anymore
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my best friend was gone and why for what
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I felt so angry inside and so helpless
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why bring us together for that chance
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meeting in the grocery store and then
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take him away less than two weeks later
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I tried to stand up but I fell back to
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my knees and I screamed at the top of my
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lungs for what seemed like 20 minutes
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until I felt like I might die of a
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broken heart
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and then
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it happened at the age of 31 years old
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with a healthy heart I literally died of
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a broken heart I had heard stories of
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this happening but I never believed it
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was possible until it happened to me
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well it is possible I remember dying
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because I did I suppose medically
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speaking I died of a heart attack and
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this is what it felt like I felt a sharp
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stabbing pain shooting down the left
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side of my arm at the same time I felt a
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very sharp pain shooting through my
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heart an entire chest it was a very
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heavy crushing pain I felt very sweaty
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panicky and out of breath I felt like I
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was simultaneously having an asthma
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attack and I couldn't breathe it was
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horrible I was in so much pain I didn't
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even try to breathe I wished to die in
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this moment I felt so much pain
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everywhere in this moment I simply
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wanted to die so the pain would end I
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was terrified and in so much pain I
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could not understand why I should
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continue to live if you have never loved
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another human being this much maybe you
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don't understand it feels like you'd
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rather die than exist without them it's
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so awful I decided that I'd rather just
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die than live without my best friend
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it didn't matter and I didn't seem to
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have any control over any of this I can
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remember holding my left arm and crying
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out in agony
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a cardiac arrest as I found out is
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agonizingly painful in this moment I
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felt like death was my only option so I
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let my body go limp and I let the pain
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overwhelm me and I knew in my soul that
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I would die soon within minutes I held
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onto my left arm and I surrendered to
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the pain I let go the next thing I
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remember I was standing outside of my
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body and being in shock once again
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I was very much alive standing outside
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of my dead body it was very frightening
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actually I looked at my dead lifeless
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body my eyes were open and a bit glazed
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over my body was completely lifeless I
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wondered what was happening then I
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realised I was dead
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I remember dying I felt nothing but an
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overwhelming urge to stay dead I don't
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want to be alive
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I don't want to be here I cried out so I
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looked around and there were kind of 30
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or so people in the room with me
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they felt like loving angels but they
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looked like just very tall human beings
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to me they were very beautiful I felt
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like I had known them before I was born
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but had since forgotten did I know them
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before I was born I felt like I did but
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I can't explain how I looked down at my
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human body again and I just knew I
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didn't want to go back into that body
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why because as soon as I died I felt my
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human soul enter back into what I can
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only describe as unconditional endless
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love I felt like I had lived before I
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was born
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like I would live again and that I had
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existed since forever for eternity
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before this moment I made eye contact
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with a tall male human-like figure in
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the room I'm not going back in there I
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told him he looked and felt sad to me
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and he was crying just like I was we
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love you so much
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but it is not your time to die yet you
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have to go back we are so sorry he told
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me then I felt a feeling of acceleration
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in my stomach and I felt nauseous like I
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might throw up but I didn't I heard loud
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sounds that I don't have kind of sounded
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like pop rocks candy and felt tremendous
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vibrations I blinked my eyes and found
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myself back inside of my physical body
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no no I screamed and I rejected it
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I needed the unconditional love I had
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felt just moments ago to survive I
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couldn't stay alive anymore I've
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struggled with depression my whole life
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and this was the worst moment of
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overwhelming pain that I've ever felt in
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my entire life all of the heaviness
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returned to me with my body I just
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wanted to feel the endless unconditional
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infinite love I had felt just moments
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ago when I was dead I felt all of the
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pain just disappear moments ago but now
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it had all returned again so I cried out
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in agony and then I felt terribly sharp
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and painful chest pains once again since
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I'd just been through this I knew that I
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was dying from cardiac arrest yet again
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I don't care I thought to myself and I
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once again surrendered to the pain I
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could not imagine surviving this much
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pain just moments before when I was
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looking at my body from outside of
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myself the heavy blanket of anguish and
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pain had been lifted off of my soul and
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I wanted to go back there
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I miss you Todd I want to be with you I
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found myself saying as I watched my body
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die once again I love you more sweet
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girl
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please stay alive Todd told me it was
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his voice I would recognize his voice
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and energy anywhere he spoke to my soul
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and I have to say I resented it easy for
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you to say you just left me here I cried
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and I surrendered to the pain and I died
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from cardiac arrest yet again I was
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happy to know sweet girl
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I love you I will love you forever I
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have loved you forever but it is not
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your time to go yet Todd told me even
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though I could not see him he spoke and
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his words resonated inside my soul I can
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remember startling back awake alive
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inside my body once again and I felt
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angry and resented it I love you sweet
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girl I have loved you forever and I will
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love you forever
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I heard Todd tell me again again I can't
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explain how I could hear him I just
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could and how could I actually argue
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with that I could feel him crying
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perhaps harder than I was I can remember
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falling asleep that night and sleeping
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off and on for days I cried and grieved
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for my best friend I was finally able to
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get up and start moving again after
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about three days I can remember hearing
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Todd tell me in words I could feel and
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hear inside my soul tell our story it
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matters and I promised that someday I
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would
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to this day several years later I still
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cry for him but I also understand that
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we will be together someday like he has
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promised me I feel like we humans are
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born here on earth for an important
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reason
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I can't tell you what that reason is I
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don't know but I feel like we have
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existed before we were born and that we
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will exist after we die I share my story
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because I want other people to know that
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their lost loved ones still exist
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somewhere and that they are okay I share
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my story because I want other people to
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know that no matter how alone they might
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feel in life they are not completely
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alone I promise there are others who
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have loved you before you were born and
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love you now and who will love you after
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you die just as much as Todd loved me I
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share my story because I want people to
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know that if they are suffering from the
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loss of a loved one they still exist
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and you will be reunited with them once
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again because love is eternal and it
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never dies your lost loved one is not
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lost at all and they are okay and they
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still love you I believe we all existed
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before we were born in these human
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bodies and we will exist for eternity
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after these human bodies died this has
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been another strange but true story sent
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thanks for watching this video i'm steve
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white until next time
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