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   SUBJECT: Am I an Abductee?                                   FILE: UFO1079   
      
   PART 3   
      
   I was amazed.  Like a curtain being lifted in my memory, I suddenly   
   remembered a night about two weeks prior during which an unusual   
   occurrence had happened.  It surprized me that I hadn't made the   
   connection sooner.  I was sure this was what she was referring to!   
   (to be discussed in full later)    Carolina continued her reading,   
   and didn't dwell on the subject of aliens, as if they were relatively   
   unimportant. Twice more during that hour, she made reference to them,   
   although she had no idea she was doing so.  She said she had the   
   image of an insect with large eyes, but that it was symbolic, and   
   I would know what it meant.  (I am sure this is symbolic for an alien.)   
   Later, she made reference to "burrowing", but couldn't get anything   
   further.  (My gut feeling was that this is connected to them also,   
   but I'm not sure why or how.)   
      
   The following week I thought a lot about my visit with Carolina as   
   I watched her short term predictions come true one by one.  Although   
   she had no way of knowing that I was planning on quitting smoking,   
   almost a month prior I had consented to participate in a clinical   
   study at Stanford Medical Center for the approval of a new drug by   
   the FDA.  It was a double-blind, placebo vs. real study to test the   
   efficacy of the transdermal nicotine patch as a therapy for smoking   
   cessation.  Requisite to participating in the study, I had a complete   
   physical during my first visit on March 28.   On April 5, I returned   
   to pick up my supply of nicotine patches, but I was shocked to learn   
   that I had failed the blood test!  Although I was not disqualified   
   from the study, Dr. Sachs informed me that I had a condition known   
   as "polycythemia", and advised me to see a hematologist.    Polycythemia,   
   the exact opposite of anaemia, is the condition of having too many   
   red blood cells.  Although smokers almost always have slightly elevated   
   hemoglobin and red cell counts, mine was far too high to be explained   
   by such.  The doctor explained that it can be caused by spleen dysfunction,   
   but, that didn't appear to be my case, as indicated from the other   
   test results of my physical.  He told me that having too many oxygen-   
   carrying red blood cells is usually the result of prolonged exposure   
   to thin atmosphere, and that athletes sometimes take illegal drugs   
   to achieve such an effect in order to increase their endurance in   
   high altitudes (such as in the marathon up Pike's Peak every year.)   
   Further, he informed me that my ruddy complexion was most likely   
   due to the blood disease.   
      
   I was shocked!  Not only was Carolina correct, but I seriously began   
   to wonder if this had anything to do with possible alien contact,   
   and "thin atmosphere."  For almost a year, friends had asking me   
   if I had a sunburn, but I always dismissed it.   
      
   On Friday, April 6, I quit smoking.  Later that day my father called   
   me from Indiana to inform me that my mother had taken ill, and was   
   in the hospital. She had a flare-up of her mitral valve heart condition,   
   a bladder infection, and an extreme case of shingles.  During our   
   conversation, my father told me that he wasn't doing so well himself;   
   he has diabetes, and his big toe had turned completely black!   
   "OhmyGodOhmyGodOhmyGod...", my mind was reeling, "how could Carolina   
   be so correct about everything!", I thought to myself, "If she has   
   been right about everything so far, what am I to think about her   
   claim that I have been in contact with extraterrestrials?"    As   
   I have mentioned earlier in this paper, during my visit with Carolina   
   I suddenly remembered a night, sometime in March, where there had   
   been an unusual occurrence.   
   End of Part 3   
      
               
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