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FIRST - Author's Note

6/8/2012

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FIRST - Author's Note:

In this lifetime, I have promised more than several people that I would write this book.  I promised some in hope, some in fear and some in reason.  Those promises were considerably safer when I was using a typewriter to store my words.

I wrote this book first, years ago, a quest for the truth in one relationship.  This same book, I wrote more, asking myself what I had learned.  I wrote it larger, a third time too.  It became a book I really did refer to as "My Psychosis Excused".  By the time I deemed it enough, I had even subtitled it, "My Fully Minded, Psycholocally Spiritual Juxtaposition of the Me, Myself and We, PhD".  I was not as amused as that might read.

In complete and utter frustration, I tried to cut myself out of my own book.  I deleted the first epic and anything else I didn't want anyone to read from the second and third additions.  I sat, at a  loss  for words, staring at the invisible loss of one hundred twenty thousand of mine.

I stared long and hard at that word count.  I stared until I really did see the irony of my life.  The insight  I had written to understand was within my sight.  Paragraphs - 366.  I numbered
months, I numbered days and then I read them.  What I learned was more a relief than it should have been -- the Truth has never been about me even when it is.

I never promised I would publish this book, I couldn't promise that.  I never really believed I would rely solely on myself for the decision to see my words published.  Live and learn,

Everything is a leap of faith --
Janet
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    Janet DeLong, PhD, is a philosophical writer.  She'd tell you that is by default, we know it's by design.  While her perceptions are not always comfortable, they are always intriguing.

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