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didn’t know if it had been an “out of body experience” (I hadn’t died)
or whether it had been the result of too much or the wrong kind of
anesthesia. It really didn’t matter. That experience had been very
real to me.

This had been a big deal but I still wasn’t sure about God and
religion. I didn’t know who I could talk to about it. Everyone in my
circle of friends and family that I attempted to share it with would just
smile and say, “That’s nice.” I felt so inadequate to find words to
describe the profoundness of it. The incredible afterglow continued
for at least six months before beginning to slowly fade away. Finally,
the memory of it was like something I had read about in a book. I
eventually got reabsorbed back into my old routines of life and that
incredible experience slowly slipped down into those dark recesses of
my mind and soul.

7 A Child Is Born

Fred was willing to go along with my idea to adopt a baby.
We attended a meeting at the local Family and Children Services
where we joined about one hundred other couples interested in
adoption. The social worker explained that prospective parents were
chosen by a lottery system. We would pick a number from a box and
that number would be our order in line for adoption. We pulled
number ninety-six. After being told that only an average of six to ten
babies were placed a year, it looked like our chances there were slim
to none.

We began researching foreign adoption, the most promising at
the time being South America. We filled out the necessary paper
work, were finger printed and had been waiting for about a year for
the process to play out, when a phone call came that dramatically
changed the course of everything. It was from Family and Children
Services. We were told that our number in line had dropped from
ninety six to sixteen, as they had changed their requirements for
eligibility. They had decided to only place babies with childless