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SPIRITUAL WISDOM AND EPIPHANIES from My Late Daughter ’ s Journal BY SUZANNE FALTER

It isn ’ t every day that we get to read our daughter ’ s innermost thoughts in her journals .

But then , it isn ’ t every day that our daughters drop dead from a medically unexplainable cardiac arrest .
That is what happened to my 22-yearold daughter Teal . One moment she was with me , sitting across the table in a nice restaurant , chatting and enjoying dinner . Then a few hours later she was gone , never to be heard from again .
And yet … she was .
Unbeknownst to me , Teal has been a dedicated journaler for many years . And so I was given the gift of knowing my daughter in a far deeper way , after her death .

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