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our guardian angel my dad recently told

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me this story and I was just amazed I

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thought you guys would like to hear it

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when I was young about three or so I was

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hospitalized in near death

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I had a fever that just would not break

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and was passed out for most of the

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hospitalization my dad who has always

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been religious wanted the hospital's

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priests to come say a prayer for me so

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the priest comes to pray for me but

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something's not right about the guy he

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never gives his name and has no Bible he

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says the entire prayer in Latin and

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blesses me now my parents aren't married

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yet and since the priest is there they

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ask why they haven't been able to have

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another child yet they had been trying

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for about a year with no luck the priest

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tells them that they won't have another

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child until they're married the priest

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leaves after that and an hour later my

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fever breaks the next day the hospital's

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priest comes to the room to say a prayer

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for me my dad is confused and tells the

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man that someone had already come the

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day before to which the man replies that

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no priests were on duty the day before

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he checked with all of the hospital

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staff and their visitation book and

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everything nothing turned up no priest

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was in the previous day he searched for

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years to find this priest that prayed

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for me and he never found a single trace

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of him anywhere a month after my mom and

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dad got married my mom got pregnant with

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my brother so we'll never know who the

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mysterious man was but I like to think

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he's our guardian angel to this day my

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dad still has found no record of him not

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even someone who looks like him someone

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was looking out for me that day though I

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angels and the redheaded woman 22 years

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ago yesterday I was in a horrific

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automobile accident and I died in a

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ditch line on the side of the road I had

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an out-of-body experience and two angels

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one on each side touched my shoulder and

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told me my work is not done here and

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just slowly pushed me down and long

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story short I ended up in a Kentucky

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intensive care unit in a coma for two

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weeks and as I came out of the coma one

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of the most beautiful Shirley Temple

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blocks redheaded woman was sitting there

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holding my hand I had no clue who this

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lady was and of course no way to

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vocalize anything because all of the

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tubes and everything that was down my

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throat and my body and things and you

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know she told me you're gonna be fine

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you're gonna be okay

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she was talking and I could hear her but

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her mouth wasn't moving and she said I'm

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going to get someone and I'll be right

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back

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so a few days later when they had taken

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the tubes out and things I asked all the

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nurses and all the hospital staff I mean

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just everything trying to find this lady

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I just wanted to thank her and you know

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she was such a great comfort at the time

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that happened and to this day I don't

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know who she was or anything and in my

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did I meet an angel my mom passed away

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on April 23rd 2016

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she had COPD I was pretty stressed out

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from watching her suffer she suffered

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for about five years with the last

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thirteen months being the worst on the

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October before she passed away I had a

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decision to make and that was to put her

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in hospice or not I'm an only child and

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my dad couldn't make that decision so

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you left it in my hands I decided to put

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her in Hospice I wasn't comfortable with

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making that decision i sat outside the

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nursing home asking and praying for help

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now I'm not a religious person I do

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believe in God and Jesus and I am

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Lutheran but I don't go to church I had

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this incredible pole to go to Saint Paul

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Cathedral in Minnesota so my son and I

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drove there from Prescott Wisconsin I

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had no idea what I was looking for as I

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sat in the front of the Jesus statue for

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about 20 minutes crying there was nobody

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around not a priest no one my son and I

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decided to go downstairs and look at the

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history of the church and that's when a

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priest came up to me he didn't look like

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an ordinary priest he had long dark

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curly red hair tied in the nape of his

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neck reddish eyes at that moment I

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hadn't noticed any of that I asked him

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about my mom and my decision and he said

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Hospice was a good thing I also had

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another worry my mother had an abortion

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when she was young and it weighed on her

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heaven he said is fair he does judge

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harshly but he loves all he told me the

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whole story of John the Baptist he told

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it so well that I felt like I was there

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he assured me everything was going to be

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okay he then asked if he could give me a

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hug and I said okay and it felt like the

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weight of the world just lifted off my

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shoulders and then he had to go back to

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his flock I wanted to go with him it was

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such a peaceful and unconditional loving

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feeling it was amazing I forgot to thank

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him and my son and I ran up after him on

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the stairs and we heard what sounded

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like him tripping and

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and what sounded like wings flapping and

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then he was gone

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we were only seconds behind him he was

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nowhere in sight

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however there were people everywhere and

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priests all over and they were all

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clean-cut no long hair

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I truly believe my son and I met an

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angel or perhaps even Jesus himself I

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had no more anxiety about my mom's

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condition it was really like the weight

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of the world just lifted off my

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shoulders it was something I will never

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my guardian angel

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this happened to me a few days ago and

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also several years ago I was in a

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terribly stupid car accident I totaled

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my car as luck would have it my oldest

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didn't go through the windshield window

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he was buckled we were fighting just

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dumb stuff looking back on it but after

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coming off a few months of heavy stress

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it seemed important it was bad anyhow it

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was bad no one was hurt too badly 911 a

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few people came to see if we were ok and

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then I felt a hand on my shoulder hey

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it's all going to be ok

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help is coming you're gonna be alright

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it was an old guy scraggly unkempt no

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shoes he disappeared as the emergency

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people got there within seconds of this

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man's arrival my oldest remembers him

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the other two in the Cardone 20 years

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ago I was in a head-on accident on a

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busy street I kid you not this guy came

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up to me and did the same thing he said

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the same thing it was the same guy

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everything was fine men as well

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eventually it actually changed my entire

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life that day it got me to a place I

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belong I think this was just a huge

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reminder to step back take breath love

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those you haven't all around me life is

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way too short if I could thank this man

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an angelic intervention I was in a

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really bad time in my life and recently

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broke up with my girlfriend another

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girlfriend had just passed on a few

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years before that I was horribly

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depressed even at a gathering of friends

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at borders where we gathered on

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Thursdays so I sat out front on the

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sidewalk and had like a comatose

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postering deal going on just crying and

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crying for like 30 minutes straight

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friends came and went to check up and

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stuff but a totally weird thing happened

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after about 30 to 45 minutes of going

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over the past few years in my head how

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horrible everything was out of nowhere a

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lady touched me on the shoulder and said

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like can I help you or is there anything

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I can do for you and my first thought

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was please don't be another Christian

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who wants to pray for me but I think I

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responded to help me not mess up my life

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or something I was bitter and angry and

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it got weird we kept talking you know

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and she's like so I just got a feeling

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passing by the West Oaks Mall Ocoee

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Florida so it's like a big mall entrance

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kinder deal and she said I had the

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random urge to drive right up here into

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this parking lot and walk right up to

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you weird right but then she starts

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talking about life and how she broke her

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rib and how she's learned so much about

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life through the injury then we agree

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that the conversation was divinely

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gifted and that God was talking through

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her and I said ha Wow

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sounds like it so anyway right after

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that she says your name is Adam right

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just like total eyebrow look over the

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shoulder moment I'm like uh yeah and I

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look around to see if my friends put her

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up to all this but they were still

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inside and she continues says you are

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going to change this world you are going

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to use your gifts and talents to bring

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true joy progress and change to this

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world we kind of marvel at this

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statement and she assures me again it is

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not her speaking but God speaking

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through her she mentioned a few other

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things I can't quite recall you know how

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these things work but they were very

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personal things that she would have

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never known otherwise I

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begged her for a human name and she

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finally gave one she said her name was

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Natalie my heart and soul were broken

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open like a walnut by this experience

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and I never saw her again

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I guess it's God I have to thank for

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sending me this particular angel during

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a moment of absolute despair am

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