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SPONTANEOUS SUCCESS
walked down the center aisle and found it. The
church was empty. I went about ten feet in and sat
down.
After fifteen minutes of quiet contemplation,
seeking inspiration for my next book, I randomly
grabbed a prayer book from the rack in front of me
and started flipping through the pages. I wasn't
looking for anything in particular, just browsing.
And then, something inside the back cover caught
my eye. There, handwritten in Portuguese, my
second language, was a quote that made my heart
skip a beat: "We are each of us angels with only one
wing, and we can only fly by embracing one
another.”
I couldn't believe it. It was like the universe was
sending me a message. "No one's going to believe
this," I thought to myself, so I pulled out my
BlackBerry and took a picture of it. I wanted proof
that this was real.
But that was just the beginning.
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