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So This is What it Feels Like: Stories of True Life Experience Stories Based on Survival, Endurance, and Inner Strength
Jacqueline Prydie
Paperback. Xlibris Corporation 2008-07-21.
ISBN 9781436335850
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HOLLY is a successful entrepreneur who juggles business with an active family life. However, she had a tough life for many years. Her first love left her at the altar. Soon she discovers she is pregnant, and being a single teen, gives the baby up for adoption. Her first husband gives her two children, but has a gambling problem and they divorce. Holly raises her two boys, doing anything she can to keep a roof over their heads. She gets her masters degree, and marries her second husband. She reunites with her son whom she gave up for adoption so many years ago, and he has become an extended member of their family. Holly's family moves to Ireland, where they run several successful businesses. Many other stories follow, including women who have been part of abusive marriages with their husbands, only to overcome these destructive relationships and become successful. Some contemplate suicide, but are brought back from the brink of disaster by their own fortitude. One woman discovers her long lost father after repeated failed attempts.
Other women are cancer survivors, and others deal with incredible hardships after finding their spouses cheating on them. One woman suffers a brutal rape during her friend's wedding weekend, which profoundly affects the way she treats men in both her professional and personal life. For years she is caught in a self-desstructive cycle that she is finally able to curtail.
A woman named DIANNE suffers horribly when she is diagnosed with a brain tumour. She uses quadra-polar magnets to ease her pain, after doctors refuse to listen and treat the chronic pain adequately that she lives with every day.
Another woman named LYNNETTE is able to see ghosts, and this gift has changed her life dramatically. She now does psychic readings, helping those in need of spiritual guidance.
The common thread in these stories is that despite adversity, these women found an inner strength to
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