Diary - Last night, I hung out with Lily to take some photos

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This is an entry from my diary. Please check it and correct any mistakes.

Last night, I hung out with Lily to take some photos of Christmas decorations. At dinner, I mentioned one of our mutual friends, Mary, who had a paranormal experience at a quarantine facility two years ago. Lily had a paranormal experience too. She said one night while she was sleeping, she suddenly had difficulty breathing. She then opened her eyes and saw a woman sitting on top of her trying to strangle her throat. Lily couldn't move and kept struggling. Finally, somehow the woman disappeared. She told her parents and they enlisted a Chinese priest to perform a ritual at her apartment in order to ward off any bad spirits. However, since then, she occasionally encounters strange things she can't explain.
 
This is an entry from my diary. Please check it and correct any mistakes.

Last night, I hung out with Lily and I went out to take some photos of Christmas decorations. At dinner, I mentioned that one of our mutual friends, Mary, who had a paranormal experience at a quarantine facility two years ago. Lily had a paranormal experienced that too. She said, one night, while she was sleeping, she suddenly had difficulty breathing. She then opened her eyes and saw a woman sitting on top of her trying to strangle her throat. Lily couldn't move and kept struggling. Finally, somehow the woman disappeared. She told her parents and they enlisted a Chinese priest to perform a ritual at her apartment in order to ward off any bad spirits. However, since then, she still occasionally encounters strange things she can't explain.
 
If you insert "that" into the second sentence then you have to delete "who".
 
If you insert "that" into the second sentence then you have to delete "who".
I can say :
1. At dinner, I mentioned one of our mutual friends, Mary, who had a paranormal experience at a quarantine facility two years ago.
2. At dinner, I mentioned that one of our mutual friends, Mary, had a paranormal experience at a quarantine facility two years ago.

Am I right?
 
I can say :
1. At dinner, I mentioned one of our mutual friends, Mary, who had a paranormal experience at a quarantine facility two years ago.
2. At dinner, I mentioned that one of our mutual friends, Mary, had a paranormal experience at a quarantine facility two years ago.

Am I right?
In 1, it sounds strange to me that you merely mentioned the person when your focus was what she went through.That's why I added "that" but forgot to delete the "who".
 
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