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I've been struggling with the question of life and death since the time I was born.

Funny thing is, though, I can remember the moment I popped into existence better than I remember

my life. It's like it was literally yesterday. My first memory, I believe, was the color gray

or white. I think it was a bright flash of light, but I also think it was gray or something,

some sort of color that you get when you look at a petri dish under a microscope.

The second was darkness. I was floating around what I would personally call space,

but there weren't any astronomical objects, no lights, stars. I distinctly remember my first

thoughts. Where am I? What is this? Is this what death is like? What language am I even speaking?

How am I thinking? What is this? Before I could finish that last question, I tried breathing,

but I couldn't. Even though I didn't need to. I started panicking and feeling like I was moving

with increasing speed outside of my will. I began seeing lights that looked like stars

from the night sky pass by me as if I were moving way faster than the speed of light.

After, I don't even know how much time, but it felt like seconds or minutes passed. I suddenly

just hit the earth. It was literally like hitting something in a car crash or a roller coaster,

except I didn't feel anything. Everything just suddenly became dark. Not the same type of dark

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