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Chapter 1
W D M I THE CRACK

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G F T here once was a boy named Mateo who lived in a

fine house by the sea in a town called Monterey. The
house had five bedrooms, a cozy family room full of books and
pictures, and a sunny kitchen. There were two cats, Bigfoot and
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N H Yeti, and a hyperactive dog named Vortex. There was plenty of
good food to eat, too, and Mateo ate plenty, fueling his natu-
rally athletic body at every opportunity. In fact, he could have
run around a baseball diamond and thrown a ball faster and
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farther than any of his friends, if he’d wanted to.
J S his hard-driving, well-meaning parents who had lofty ambitions
But Mateo was not like the other boys. Nor was he like

for him. Instead, Mateo liked to sit around and do nothing, or
at least what looked like nothing to everyone else but was, in
fact, something quite special.
You see, Mateo had Presence, which is a rare and
wonderful gift indeed. He didn’t brood about the past or plan
for the future. Instead, he hung out in the present moment. And
what did he do there? Well, I’ll tell you. He imagined, which,
to him, was much more fun than anything he was supposed to
be doing.

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