“As I remember getting hit right back here, back in the neck, know what, it (penetrated) through, throughout right here into my neck.”

"He said he tasted the salt, the salty taste of blood. It filled him. He (choked), he gagged, he fell in the mud, and he died. He died there in the mud.” Patricia didn't know what to make of her son's story. At first she (shrugged) it off, assuming it was a child's (fantasy) or the lingering effects of the (anesthesia). Two days after the tonsillectomy, Donald noticed the (cyst) in the front of his son's neck had completely (disappeared). Immediately, he called Edward's doctor. “I had to (concur) the cyst had been completely resolved, and completely gone. I (anticipated) that if anything, this was an unusual event, and I anticipated that the cyst would return. It never has.”

Not only did Edward's cyst disappear, but his personality changed. He wasn't afraid to be (alone) any more; he didn't get anxious, even on the (gloomiest) days. He did, however, feel the need to repeat his tale. Time and again, he (rehashed) the story of his life as a soldier. “It wasn't my four-year-old talking. He had a grasp and a knowledge of things that, a four-year-old child is just not exposed to.”

Patricia could no longer (ignore) her son's stories, she was convinced there had to be something to them and felt they might be somehow linked to the disappearance of Edward's cyst. After several months of intensive research, she found an (explanation) that made sense to her. Perhaps, Edward was (healed) by confronting his death in a past life. Could Edward's stories of life and death as a soldier in France have been carried over from a past life? And if so, could they be the source of his unexpected cure? A contingent of past life therapists and researchers are convinced.

“At a very early age, Edward had a fairly complete (recollection) of what it was like to be a soldier, and what it was like to die in a battlefield, and he had a (corresponding) physical problem in his neck.”

Vocabulary:

penetrate through: make a way into or through sth The heavy rain had penetrated right through her coat.

gag: choke or retch gagging on a piece of raw fish anesthesia: loss of sensation with or without loss of consciousness concur: to agree with someone or have the same opinion as them contingent: A contingent is a group of people representing a country or organization at a meeting or other event.

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