Silvia Foti's Posts - CrimeSpace2024-03-29T11:37:11ZSilvia Fotihttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/lotusinkhttp://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/60987647?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1http://crimespace.ning.com/profiles/blog/feed?user=lotusink&xn_auth=noInterview of Margot Justestag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-09-03:537324:BlogPost:691652007-09-03T19:09:23.000ZSilvia Fotihttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/lotusink
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Interview with Margot Justes</p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">September 3, 2007</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">What's the title of your book and what's it about?…</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">What's the title of your book and what's it about?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">The title is A Hotel in Paris, and it is about an American painter who goes to Paris and finds murder, mayhem and an Inspector from Interpol.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">What is your website? Where else can people find out more about you?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">My website would be a great start, it is <a href="www.mjustes.com">www.mjustes.com</a>.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">What is your genre, and what do you personally gain by writing in this genre?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">I started out writing a full fledged mystery, an international cozy. My two protagonists met and the rest as
they say is history, there was an instant chemistry between them. So I have a<br />
mystery with romance. Since it is set in Paris,<br />
the romance part was very easy. I enjoy writing, I find it very therapeutic.<br />
The mystery genre is very familiar to me, since I am a big fan, the romance<br />
genre is a new found friend.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">What artwork hangs in your home?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">That is a delightful question. I love glass and I am a great, absolutely huge Chihuly fan, sad to
say I don't own any of his pieces. But, I have some African folk art, I love<br />
the Art Deco period and have a few pieces, Oriental water colors, etc. I love<br />
art. Our house does not have much wall space left or shelf space for that matter,<br />
so I just bought some art glass shelves for more art. The Highland Park Art<br />
Fair is coming up and I'll need space. I get a great deal of pleasure looking<br />
at the pieces.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">Describe the place you do most of your writing.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">That would be my incredibly messy office, where I am continuously looking for things, but it affords me my
solitude. It is filled with books, has a comfy couch, where I can sit and read,<br />
and of course my desk,computer and no phone.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br style="page-break-before: always;" clear="all"/></span>Interview of Christine Verstraetetag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-08-25:537324:BlogPost:667762007-08-25T17:06:02.000ZSilvia Fotihttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/lotusink
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="">Interview with</b> <b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">Christine Verstraete, author of The Witch Tree</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">What's the title of your book and what's it about?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">I love reading science fiction, mysteries and stories about the supernatural, having grown up with classics like the
Twilight Zone and having read almost every book by Stephen King. Some of that<br />
eeriness must've rubbed off on my own writing, like my short story, "The<br />
Witch Tree,"</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">published by Echelon Press, LLC, which involves an unusual flocking of blackbirds, a big ugly tree and...
you'll have to read it for the rest of the story.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">But I also enjoy mysteries and managed to combined my favorites: dogs, miniatures and mystery in my upcoming young adult
book, "Searching for a Starry Night," coming out in spring '08 from<br />
Quake, <a href="www.quakeme.com">www.quakeme.com</a>, a division of Echelon<br />
Press.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">What is your website? Where else can people find out more about you?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">You can read about my work and see some of my miniatures at <a href="http://cverstraete.com/">http://cverstraete.com</a> I am
always adding things and changing pages so stop by!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">Plus, in relation to my upcoming ya mystery which features a mischievous Dachshund named Petey and a hunt for a missing
miniature Van Gogh painting, I've started a new blog, <a href="http://candidcanine.blogspot.com/">http://candidcanine.blogspot.com</a>,<br />
which will feature some unique dog-related miniatures and unusual dog news.<br />
Right now, I am trying to catch up so be sure to check back!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">I've always been a curious person (read nosy, ha!) so that could explain why I've been drawn to mysteries.
I simply have to know the answer to the riddle!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">What artwork hangs in your home?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">I enjoy all kinds of art, but much of my "artwork" is three-dimensional, as in shadowboxes featuring
miniatures I've made, small wall hanging rooms or other larger dollhouses set<br />
on tables.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">Describe the place you do most of your writing.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">I have a small home office where I work.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">Can you give me an excerpt of your writing -- say a paragraph that shows the true inner self of your main
character? I'm looking for the "deepest moment"</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">of character realization in your book (in 100 words or less :-)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">One of my favorite moments in "Searching for a Starry Night" is when Sam attempts to scare her
friend with a spooky, late-night family story. That story comes back to haunt<br />
her when she hears a noise outside...</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">..."Don't open the door," Lita whispered. "You've seen all those scary movies. You know
what happens when the boy or girl goes outside by themselves."</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">"Oh, c'mon Lita," Sam groaned, "how could you do that to me? I've been trying not to think of Grandpa
Sylvester and you--"</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">Her words were cut off by the sound of a thump right outside the door.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">Petey flew forward in a spasm of barks. His legs left the ground with each violent growl and bark. Sam
wasted no time and jumped off the chair almost into her friend's arms. The two<br />
hugged each other and watched, wide-eyed, as the doorknob slowly started to<br />
turn.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">The panic threatened to choke Sam. "Lita," she whispered, "please tell me that I locked the
door."</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">- Excerpt, "Searching for a Starry Night," Quake, coming spring '08.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">Christine Verstraete - <a href="http://cverstraete.com/">http://cverstraete.com</a> Coming Spring '08: "Searching for a Starry Night" - A nosy Dachshund digs up a family
curse... is Sam's quest to find the missing miniature art, and save her longest<br />
friendship, doomed? Quake/Echelon Press - <a href="http://www.quakeme.com/">http://www.quakeme.com</a></span></p>Interview with Toni LoTempiotag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-08-18:537324:BlogPost:645202007-08-18T18:49:05.000ZSilvia Fotihttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/lotusink
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Interview with Toni LoTempio</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;">August 20, 2007</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Interview with Toni LoTempio</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;">August 20, 2007</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">What do you think of Tarot cards? <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue;">I used the Tarot as a theme in my novel, Bound by Blood. I had to learn to read them.
I find them fascinating.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Would you ever consider using Tarot cards as a way to inspire your creativity? <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue;">- I have--and I consult them often. Some of the things have
happened.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue;">Have you ever gone to a psychic and had your cards read? What happened? - I
had a dear friend, Sally, who was a psychic. She passed of cancer at age<br />
62, but it's amazing how much of what she's said in readings has happened -<br />
sometimes after a few years!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue;">Have you ever seen anything you'd describe as supernatural? - Lots of things -
and I definitely believe in angels, spirits and life after death.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">What is one of your newest writing goals? <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue;">- to get an agent, and to be published by a mainstream publisher before I die - otherwise
i'll have to do it in my next life :.)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This a very un-PC question, but what is your religion? Do you have one? What religious principles do you live by? What religious artifacts would a visitor find
in your home? <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue;"><br />
- I'm Roman Catholic, and I try to live by the axiom, 'do unto<br />
others'. Lots of statues of saints in my home - and rosaries.<br />
I collect rosaries.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">What artwork hangs in your home? <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue;">- Portraits of my parents, and a large framed Nancy Drew cover - the Secret of the Old Attic - that's my
favorite :.)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">What's the title of your book and what's it about? <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue;">- My latest is EBONY and it's about the supernatural -zombies, to be precise.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">What is your website? Where else can people find out more about you? <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue;">
My website addy is <a href="http://www.freewebs.com/toni1953" title="http://www.freewebs.com/toni1953">www.freewebs.com/toni1953</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue;">Email: <a href="mailto:toni.lotempio@itt.com" title="mailto:toni.lotempio@itt.com">toni.lotempio@itt.com</a>
or <a href="mailto:tlotempio@aol.com" title="mailto:tlotempio@aol.com">tlotempio@aol.com</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"></p>Interview of Kerul Kasselltag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-08-12:537324:BlogPost:626832007-08-12T17:26:34.000ZSilvia Fotihttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/lotusink
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="">Interview of Kerul Kassell,</b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="">Author of Stop Procrastinating Now</b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="">August 13, 2007</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style="">Author of Stop Procrastinating Now</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style="">August 13, 2007</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">What's the title of your book and what's it about?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Stop Procrastinating Now – Five Radical Strategies To Set You Free</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Synopsis: Ending Procrastination is much easier than you think...and you'll be surprised
at how you do it! That’s what’s completely different about the system this<br />
book is going to teach you. It’s not called radical for nothing! Here are some<br />
of the insights you’ll learn:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; color: navy;">v</span> <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">You need to drop your goals... right now. What? Doesn't this fly in the face of
everything you've ever been taught? Yes. I'll show you how to drop your goals<br />
and get lots more of the right things done.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; color: navy;">v</span> <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">What the heck a hit man has to do with following through.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; color: navy;">v</span> <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">How to stop taking yes for an answer.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; color: navy;">v</span> <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">How to give up on finishing (forever!) - a startling technique that will double
your productivity instantly.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">What is your genre, and what do you personally gain by writing in this genre?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Non-fiction – and I hope to change the world! Seriously, I hope to affect people
positive. I found so many people beating themselves up about what they hadn't<br />
accomplished in life, and it was weighing them down, draining them of energy,<br />
and that was so unnecessary! I wanted to help them let go of that<br />
punishing perspective and replace it with a new lively, fun, experimental,<br />
forward-thinking one, and I could reach more people by writing a book.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Most writers I know are on a quest for truth, some sort of a personal truth. What truth are you seeking in your body of work?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">I’m seeking the truth of each person’s own truth, without “shoulding” myself (or
yourself) into a mediocre, pale version what we have the potential to be, potential<br />
that the world needs, and we need to contribute.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Many writers I know have had a difficult childhood, or something terrible that happened to them. They use writing as an outlet, a way
to release their demons, if you will. Does this apply to you, and are you<br />
willing to share what in your past drives you to write now?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">I think it’s related. My mom was tough on me when I was little, and I had
zero self-confidence because the all too frequent “What is wrong with you”<br />
reprimands I received had the effect of making me believe that there was<br />
something very wrong with me – indeed, little was right. So self-doubt<br />
defined my life all the way into and through adulthood until I was around 40,<br />
when I started finally finding my own voice and my own desires, boundaries, and<br />
truths. I see how self-doubt plagues others, and how it hampers them from<br />
being happy, productive people – I want to help them find their own versions of<br />
the truth – whatever it is for them..</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This a very un-PC question, but what is your religion? Do you have one? What religious principles do you live by? What religious
artifacts would a visitor find in your home?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">I grew up Jewish, but I don’t follow it at all. There’s too much I don’t
relate to, and little I do. I’m spiritual but not religious. I live<br />
by the golden rule, and pretty much by the 10 commandments. I always seek<br />
to have compassion and respect for others and all life (most of the time I’m<br />
able to, but certainly not perfect on this one!). My church is the great<br />
outdoors – God looks me in the face everyday in the eyes of my dogs, my horses,<br />
the birds and butterflies that visit my house and community, and in so very<br />
many other ways. I count my blessings daily, pray to “the great spirit”<br/>
for the healing of others, but none of it’s is formally done, and not with any<br />
intermediary in the form of a clergy person or a building made for the purpose<br />
of praying. I distrust formal religions – they’re great for some people,<br />
but I’ve seen too much greed, avarice, abuse, and worse by religious<br />
organizations and people to find much use for it.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue;">Have you ever gone to a psychic and had your cards read? What happened?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">A number of times</span> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: navy;">–</span></span> <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">but I only recall that there was nothing
particularly surprising or revelatory. It was definitely fun and interesting,<br />
and Tarot cards are really cool – I do have a deck but I’ve never learned to<br />
ready them properly. I’ll definitely go to a psychic or Tarot card reader<br />
a few more times, but in terms of useful information to use as guidance or<br />
reassurance…not so much. One of my colleagues gave me an Angel card<br />
deck. Also fascinating, but when I’ve used it to get guidance, I can<br />
never figure out what the cards are telling me – it never seems to make sense<br />
to me, probably because I have such a literal mind.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue;">Have you ever seen anything you'd describe as supernatural?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Not so much seen as felt or experienced – a number of times. There were
different experiences, not the same thing over and over, though most of them<br />
involve clairvoyance (on my part), such as when I got a phone call and the in<br />
the tone of the ringing phone something told me that a bad thing had happened.<br />
My friend suddenly lost her brother and was calling me to tell me.<br />
I wasn’t expecting anything bad, but that ring just told me. Another time<br />
I was all out of sorts on the way to our summer house – not at all like I<br />
usually am. My husband didn’t know what to make of me. When we got<br />
to the house, we found it had been robbed. A few years ago I got a call<br />
in the middle of the night – it was a neighbor of my parents - their house was<br />
on fire and I needed to come immediately. I was a couple of hours away,<br />
and it was 2:30 in the morning. On the drive down the configurations in the<br />
stars were telling me that my father had passed away in the fire. I could<br />
see an arrow in the stars, like they were pointing toward heaven. I<br />
didn’t get verification that he’d died until I got to the hospital a couple of<br />
hours later. My mom was alive but injured – my dad didn’t make it.</span></p>
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