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The Meeting That Changed My Life
The Things my Deceased Sister told me

First, I must tell you that I had a sister named Cindy. When we were young, people thought we were twins. She was 13 months older then me. About 23 years ago, she was diagnosed with cancer. They gave her 8 months to 5 years to live. She said she was going to prove them wrong and live longer. Well, she did exceed the 5 years by about 6 months. She passed away in October of 1995, at the age of 34. I still miss her and when I heard about a medium from Stroudsburg, who knew things that no one else would know, I called and made arrangements for her to come to my house. Mary Sbat said she didn't want to know anything about me, except my first name, or who I wanted to contact. I never told her that it was my sister that I wanted her to talk to. I was told some very interesting things and I was surprised by some of them. Mary said that she would be at my house on a Saturday about 2:00pm. She arrived about 1:15pm. She wanted to give herself some extra time since she was never in this area before. For the meeting, she asked that I have a picture of the person and something metal that belonged to that person. The picture I picked was the last picture that we had taken of Cindy. I found her knitting needles and put them on the kitchen table. Once again, Mary told me not to tell her anything. We sat at the table, Mary picked up the white needles, and looked at the picture. After a short time, Mary began to tell me the things that Cindy wanted me to know. Mary said that Cindy wanted to let me know that her legs felt fine. Cindy had a walking disorder since she was 17 years old. Her walking was very unsteady, Cindy wanted me to know

that she has no trouble walking anymore. She also let Mary know that she had no more pain from the cancer. When she passed away, she had lesions on her brain and had a lot of pain. Cindy also wanted to let me know she is still 34. She laughs because she knows that I say that I'm 29, plus

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