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Tradepaper ISBN: 978-1-4019-4537-4

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History only comes alive when you know the people!

This book almost didnt get written. Four months before I started writing, I was in a coma, and the doctors didnt know if I would make it.

Like many of you reading this, I have not had an easy life. I struggled with major physical problems since I was a teenager. Despite my struggles, I earned a BA in telecommunications, then put myself through law school while working full-time. I became an attorney and worked for a labor union in Washington, D.C. Then a freak exposure to some very toxic mold pushed my already marginal health over the edge. My immune system broke down, and I became allergic to seemingly everything. Although I underwent many medical interventions, I became sicker and sicker. These health problems cost me a career I loved, and left me with a life filled with fear, pain, and uncertainty. At one point I was living a virtually nomadic existence, moving from place to place because everything and everyone around me had the potential to make me very sick.

In 2011, I experienced a health crisis that culminated in a weeklong coma. My spirit guides came to me in what I could only call a near-death experience, and asked whether I wanted to stay on Earth. They gave me three minutes to decide, saying that if I stayed, there was a big surprise in store.

They knew how to get my attention! I was very curious. What surprise could they mean? At that point, simply an end to suffering sounded pretty good. And, honestly, I felt Id had enough surprises. But I knew in my heart that if I left, I would feel disappointed. I wouldnt have published the books that I knew I was meant to publish, and I would be leaving my family and friends. So I told my guides that I wanted to stay.

When I awoke from my coma, everything had changed. To this day, my doctors, calling my recovery miraculous, shake their heads and say they dont understand it.

Four months later, the surprise my spirit guides promised appearedBen Franklin showed up in my kitchen. Thus began the parade of spirits clamoring for an interview, and when I was well enough, I wrote. I titled my book Conversations with History, and when it was finished, I entered it in a contest with Hay Houseand won a publishing contract. No agent, no rejections, just a book contract. I am living proof that miracles can and do happen if you are walking your path.