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“SITTING IN THAT HOSPITAL, I THOUGHT WE WERE DONE”

ON THE EVENING of November 18, 2015, The Ghost Inside frontman Jonathan Vigil laid down in the bunk of his band’s tour bus thinking about Star Wars. “We’d just binge-watched all the movies because The Force Awakens was about to come out,” he tells us today. “I remember going to bed feeling like a little kid, all excited to see it. The next thing I remember is waking up in a hospital bed with my mom staring at me. It was surreal.”

The events of that day still sound as shocking

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