Silent Light on an Eve of (Near) Destruction

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After the first of the year 1995, I began dating one of the ER/ICU nurses that I had worked with at the Westside hospital. We had been seeing each other for approximately a month, when we began discussing my beliefs regarding extraterrestrial life. She listened very intently to the experiences I had gone through and was especially attracted to the Socorro encounter. 

She cooked dinner for me that night, consisting of Curried Shrimp, basmati rice and homemade white chocolate ice-cream with raspberrie sauce. The next morning she was going to meet a friend in Guatemala and vacation in Belize. She had a strange feeling about the trip, feeling that she might not come back from her excursion. I stayed the night.

Later in the evening we went to bed. Her bedroom faced out overlooking the Rio Grande river situated in Rio Rancho. It had a wonderful view of both the river and the night sky.

Around 3 a.m. she woke me up with a very dreamy sounding voice, “Look at the pretty star” Her head was raised and looking out the window. I followed her gaze and coming down the river at tree top level was a brilliant white light. It lit up the trees and the river underneath it, and was so bright that you couldn’t see what was behind it. There was absolutely no sound. The window was opened, and a breeze was coming in, but absolutely no sound.

I got up the next morning and made it to class. Half way through Biochem, UNM’s campus police pulled me out of class. My new girlfriend had been in a near fatal car accident on her way to the airport. Her car had been T-boned by a 1994 Chevy Blazer. 

She had suffered a lacerated liver, multiple rib fractures including a flail chest, her pelvis was fractured in 5 places and she suffered a closed head trauma.

This was a prelude to our next 9 years together. 

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