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Consult your physician before adopting the suggestions in this book. Following these dietary suggestions may impact the effect of certain types of medication. Any changes in dosage should be made only in cooperation with your prescribing physician. Your doctor should always be consulted before beginning any new diet, exercise, therapeutic, or other health program.

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To my BFF, Selma Bomzer, who passed on before this book was finished, and to my beautiful sister, Robin Lori.

Words cannot express my gratitude for having had you in my life.

By example, you have each shown me what it is to live a full life, and a life of merit.

Neither one of you ever asked for anything in return for all that you gave.

Individually, you have inspired me, and taught me the true meanings of love, grace, strength, beauty, and generosity.

I see the world differently for having known you both, and I am grateful.

Your love, your smiles, and your laughter, will be missed, but never forgotten.

I will remember you and keep you in my heart, always.

 

I am a thousand winds that blow,

I am the diamond glints on snow,

I am the sun on ripened grain,

I am the gentle autumn rain.

When you awaken in the morning’s hush,

I am the swift uplifting rush

Of quiet birds in circled flight.

I am the soft stars that shine at night.

 

- Excerpt from (Do not stand at my grave and weep), a poem by Mary Elizabeth Frye, 1932