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In this powerful testimony, a former military serviceman and commercial diver shares his extraordinary near-death experience that occurred during a devastating storm off the California coast. From drowning in treacherous waters to encountering boundless love and light in the afterlife, this story transcends ordinary survival tales. Watch as he reveals how this profound experience transformed his perspective on life, death, and the very nature of existence.
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I DIED for 7 Minutes in the Ocean... What I Saw Changed Everything" 🌊💫
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I remember a night when the ocean turned
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into a raging Tempest screaming out its
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fury like some ancient Untamed Beast
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long before that though my life seemed
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to belong to a different timeline
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entirely a timeline where the world
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itself often felt like a Labyrinth of
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Shadows and secrets growing up with a
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single parent was difficult in ways I
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couldn't fully grasp as a child moved
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from one household to another I was an
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outsider drifting without a genuine
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sense of home the arguments the silences
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the strained relationships they formed a
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dark history I didn't understand in
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those younger years I felt caught in my
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own unsolved mystery wondering if I'd
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ever find a true home or a stable family
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eventually my adolescence brought fresh
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challenges at 14 I ended up living under
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the same roof with my biological mother
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again but we hardly knew each other her
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new marriage introduced even more
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disputes into the mix some sometimes it
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felt as though we were members of a
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chaotic Clan as if some invisible crime
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family enforced its own rules of Discord
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behind closed doors we were not dealing
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with notorious kingpins or organized
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crime by any means but the tension felt
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as severe as an inner circle of trouble
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I sought Escape nights where I'd stare
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at the sky and wonder if anyone else
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felt so a drift I grew self-reliant
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developing a kind of hardened shell no
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matter how many times I found myself in
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un familiar environments I learned to
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keep my defenses up when I was older I
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joined the service my decision wasn't
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fueled by patriotism alone but by
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practicalities I needed money for school
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and a chance at self-improvement that
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path led me deep into mechanical
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engineering I excelled in my training
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pressing forward with a singular Focus
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to carve my own place and never let
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anything or anyone stand in my way if
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something did get in my way I was
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perfectly content to push right through
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it my perspective lacked empathy I
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basically cared only about my trajectory
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My Success my future after my time in
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the service I stumbled upon my true
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passion diving at first it was just
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scuba diving for fun but soon enough I
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became a commercial diver chasing those
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underwater Frontiers that sparked my
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soul I combined my mechanical
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engineering background with my
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increasing love for the deep sea
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eventually I was entrusted with the
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leadership role on a research vessel
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overseeing all sorts of complex systems
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commercial diving in those days was
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fraught with Peril almost an underworld
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Secret in its own right the mortality
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rates were high many friends suffered
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grave accidents or left the field
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entirely missing limbs hearing lost even
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fatalities these were hazards we learned
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to live with as though we were tiptoeing
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through an unsolved mystery at the
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bottom of the ocean every time we
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slipped beneath the waves one fateful
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year we were off the California coast
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evaluating a remote operated submarine
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it should have been fairly routine but
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the weather decided otherwise a
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ferocious storm barreled in churning the
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water near the Harbor's entrance into
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towering waves we had 25 or 30ft
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Breakers looming like monstrous Watchers
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waiting to test our courage operating a
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large vessel in that chaos was expensive
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and high risk the plan was to transfer
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most of the crew ashore using a small
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inflatable boat known for its
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reliability in Rough Waters a kind of
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Lifeboat that threatened to become its
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own real life mafia story if the sea
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decided to show no mercy that night for
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reasons tied to crew familiarity with
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the harbor I was told to join that small
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boat team this was unusual since I was
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normally entrusted with overseeing the
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entire ship's engineering but Duty
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called we sced around the boat storage
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for life jackets they were ins such poor
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shape caked with dust and age
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nevertheless we strapped them on
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determined to make our way through the
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swirling Blackness toward the shoreline
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it was so dark you couldn't see anything
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beyond a few pockets of light from The
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Horizon we tried to stay oriented riding
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at top massive swells during fleeting
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moments of clarity only to be swallowed
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by plunging troughs seconds later before
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we knew it the storm had pushed us about
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a mile off course straight into the
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break Zone with monstrous waves twisting
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and rearing up like an Infamous
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Syndicate of Unstoppable forces suddenly
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our inflatable boat soared off the crest
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of a towering wave and slammed down onto
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the ocean's surface with brutal force
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the next breaker crashed Upon Us in a
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matter of Heartbeats The Vessel folded
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in half and I was launched head first
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into the icy black water my training did
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little to quell the Panic as I tumbled
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beneath the surface I couldn't see
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couldn't stabilize couldn't even figure
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out which end was up the ocean felt like
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an organized crime Empire determined to
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break me an unrelenting ruthless Force
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eventually when my lungs screamed for
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air I lost that battle I inhaled water I
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drowned yet the next thing I knew
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everything went quiet no more Roar of
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waves or desperate flailing just a
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Stillness that enveloped me entirely I
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sensed I wasn't alone as if something
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Grand and loving was present confusion
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mingled with curiosity I drifted in pure
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Darkness then noticed a tiny glimmer
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like a distant pin prick of warmth in
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the cosmic expanse that light pulled me
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closer or perhaps I moved closer to it
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soon I realized this light was made of
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countless shimmering fragments all
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dancing in unison all connected in
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Perfect Harmony I gazed at myself and I
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noticed something profoundly strange my
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own form changing into one of those
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luminous fragments a feeling of
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unconditional love poured over me Beyond
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any love I'd known in the chaotic crime
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families of my upbringing or the gritty
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underworld secrets of dangerous diving
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missions this love was boundless shining
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with such authenticity that it felt more
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real than the physical world on Earth we
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talk about love transactions give and
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take this was the pure opposite it was
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simply constant and endless as I drifted
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closer a small group of these light
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fragments approached me like a welcoming
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party I recognized them but not as
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relatives I'd known in this life they
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felt like a soul family I'd always
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belonged to but had somehow forgotten
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more fragments gathered filling me with
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awe and peace my new companions led me
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deeper into the light guiding me to
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experience something extraordinary in
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that radiant realm I relived all that
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had shaped me every scene unfolded like
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a vivid Mosaic my bitter childhood the
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unsettled AR uments my days in the
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service the single-minded ambition that
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once fueled me I saw not just my own
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perspective but how my words and actions
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affected every person I'd interacted
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with it was more than a standard Life
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review it was total immersion in each
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point of view as if I were
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simultaneously inside a thousand Vantage
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points I felt embarrassment over the
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harsh ways I had treated people my
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narrow Focus my disregard for their
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feelings and yet the Luminous beings by
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my side showed no judgment they radiated
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only empathy as if to say we are here
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with you experiencing it together their
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acceptance enveloped me like a soft warm
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blanket of understanding that I'd hardly
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known in my real life mafia stories a
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phrase that might conjure visions of
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street fights or criminal Enterprises
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but for me that phrase ironically
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conjured memories of personal conflicts
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and dark corners of my own past then the
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review moved beyond the scenes I already
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lived it stretched forward in time
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showing me glimpses of a future path
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though it was hazy not as crystal clear
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as the retelling of my past through it
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the soul family stood Faithfully beside
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me letting me know that more awaited
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some Destiny some purpose suddenly an
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all-encompassing Voice or perhaps it was
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the collective voice of all that
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wondrous light communicated that my
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moment there was not permanent I was
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told it wasn't my my time I had to go
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back instantly I resisted that body I'd
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Left Behind felt like a broken shell why
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return to that battered form when I had
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Solace here embraced by a love
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surpassing all
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comprehension I tried arguing with this
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enormous presence an Essence so immense
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that you might liken it to the ultimate
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Cosmic Authority more powerful than any
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notorious Kingpin or inFAMOUS Syndicate
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but logic had no place in this realm my
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soul seemed to recognize that if I was
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tasked with returning I had a role I had
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a purpose and so I surrendered suddenly
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I hovered outside my body observing its
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limp shape battered by the Raging Sea my
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luminous companions had followed calmly
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showing me how the line from the boat
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became entangled around my arm yanking
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me to the surface another wave battered
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my chest I saw the body choke water
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forced out of its lungs that was the
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moment I was gently nudged back inside
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snapping me into the bruis painful
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reality of Consciousness everything achd
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I coughed violently struggling to find
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air yet unbelievably I was alive my
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fellow crew members who had stayed in
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that black chaos searching for me pulled
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me onto what remained of the inflatable
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boat they told me how I'd been lost for
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far too long to possibly hold my breath
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they asked how I'd survived I gave them
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a quick half truth something quippy like
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a joke to keep things simple
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the world of commercial diving was too
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tough a circle to confess my miraculous
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experiences of unconditional love and
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luminous Soul families death in that
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line of work carried a certain Grim
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taboo I decided to keep my near-death
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Journey locked away in a private corner
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of my mind as if it were Contraband
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Knowledge from some secret underworld
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but burying that memory didn't work for
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long I'd glimpsed something that changed
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everything although fear and confusion
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lingered I felt a powerful urge towards
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self-improvement an inner voice telling
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me I could no longer be that Brash
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careless young man I realized my life
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had a direction that mattered even if
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the exact details still eluded me yet
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The Wonder of that unconditional love
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haunted me almost like an unsolved
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mystery I couldn't stop retracing if I
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managed to feel it once I needed to feel
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it again and share it trying to merge
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that Transcendent understanding with
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everyday life proved a challenge it's as
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though I'd ventured into a dimension
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that overshadowed every notorious
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Kingpin overshadowed all illusions of
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final endings overshadowed everything
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that shouted impossible in the mortal
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world I wanted to make sense of that
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feeling however seeking that staggering
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sense of unconditional love could become
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an addiction like craving an intangible
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high that dwarfs any gangster-like drama
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of The Human Experience some individuals
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perhaps might grow depressed long in to
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return to that realm others might
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attempt to replicate the feeling in all
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the wrong ways plunging deeper into the
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wrong kind of darkness in my case I
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chose to keep living I needed to see why
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I had been sent back that decision led
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me to build a quiet life for a while I
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found different work leaving the hyper
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dangerous commercial diving scene behind
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in time I moved into a more standard
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career in a hospital setting finding
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ways to harness my organizational
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strengths and me mechanical knowledge in
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the realm of patient care life stepped
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into a certain Rhythm though the memory
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of drowning and Awakening in luminous
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love stationed itself in the background
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a persistent guiding spirit that
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wouldn't let go then a day came when
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pain racked my body again it felt like
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my spine suddenly waged war against me
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sending nerve shocks through my limbs
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until I had no choice but to head to the
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emergency department medical
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examinations quickly revealed something
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akin to a hidden underworld infiltration
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in my own flesh Advanced lung cancer
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metastasizing into my bones lesions
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threatened my spine my hip even my brain
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doctors told me I had weeks maybe a
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couple of months if luck smiled upon me
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their words fell over me like a grim
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pronouncement from a powerful crime
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family we own you now only I had already
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stood in the presence of something far
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grander than any final sentence a doctor
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could Proclaim I saw how those puzzles
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pieces from my near-death Vision were
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coming into place I had been shown a
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future crisis and now I was walking
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directly into it yet I remembered a
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subtle clue from that luminous realm I
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would live beyond this cancer I still
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had more to accomplish my medical team
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offered traditional treatments surgery
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medication and strategies to manage pain
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but I combined those with a profound
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spiritual approach I poured gratitude
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into every breath even when Agony
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dominated my days gratitude for the
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lessons for the suffering that taught me
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compassion for the chance to keep
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evolving despite a monstrous disease
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prowling through my body like an
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Infamous
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Syndicate at first people around me
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thought my thankfulness was bizarre how
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could anyone be grateful for stage 4
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cancer but here's the secret I owed a
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debt to life itself I had already
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glimpsed a place of infinite love if I
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was still here in this Mortal coil
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it must be for a reason no different
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than an undercover agent infiltrating a
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crime family for a bigger cause so I
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faced each day with raw resolve sure
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that every second I clung to existence
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might bring me closer to the reason I'd
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returned within half a year which many
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considered miraculous my scans no longer
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showed cancer I stood healthy again
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reality defying the dire medical verdict
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when I look back on that Oceanic ordeal
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and the Staggering Love From Beyond I
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see Life as a grand stage of co-creation
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each of us is part of an immense
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Universal dance like a swirl of
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fragments that form a luminous tide in
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an Endless Sea sure we're limited by
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physical bodies and linear time forced
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to navigate everyday tasks heartbreak
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and illusions that we are separate from
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the rest but in truth we are intimately
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woven together in a tapestry where
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everything matters every small moment
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every kindness every glance and yet yes
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even every dark misdeed or failure
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because we learn from them they become
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the building blocks of our
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expansion our existence here is more
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than just surviving or indulging in
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fleeting desires that might remind us of
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Underworld Secrets or organized crime in
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a purely metaphorical sense instead it's
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about thriving in the knowledge that we
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hold immeasurable potential within us I
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used to think real might meant forging
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my own path by force now I see genuine
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strength as an outpouring of compassion
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love and a Readiness to lift others
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that's how we weave ourselves into the
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greater energy of
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creation at times I still miss that
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luminous domain longing for a return to
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the place that felt like my real home
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whenever Gloom threatens to overshadow
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me whenever difficulties metastasize
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like Unstoppable antagonists in a bleak
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gangster Saga I remember the day the
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storm claimed me I remember how I
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drowned and how I discovered a realm
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brimming with acceptance a dimension
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that resonates with unconditional love
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so powerful it transcends everything we
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call normal I remind myself that I was
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sent back told that there was purpose in
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these mortal footsteps now my journey
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continues unexpected challenges remain
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life is full of Unsolved Mysteries and
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we each have a mission to fulfill our
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trials can feel like infiltration
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missions among notorious kingpins of
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negativity or Showdown with crime
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families of Despair but beneath that
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veneer I see the truth that we're
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Dynamic shards of a larger shining
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Mosaic each reflecting a magnificent
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love beyond our wildest
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comprehension and this awareness propels
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me forward letting me savor every breath
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never forgetting that under the Roar of
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daily life lies an unbreakable link to
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the infinite and so in the end I stand
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here all struck by the Majesty of
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existence I carry the memory of dark
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Waters swirling in a Vortex of near
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demise and the revelation of a radiant
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place where no wave can extinguish the
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light this is me I have gazed upon the
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underworld secrets of that night
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glimpsed how close we truly are to an
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unseen tapestry of unity now in every
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Dawn I sense a deeper calling one that
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words can scarcely describe no direct
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guide book exists no official code to
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decipher the next steps in my story yet
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I trust in the unconditional essence of
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something far greater than any tide or
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storm I trust that each of us holds a
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piece of the Divine and that it is our
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shared vow to illuminate our
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surroundings with the glow we carry