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 At first it didn’t seem like my kind of book.
For the past three years, as founder of the
Get Ready For Love! Radio Show, I’ve spent
all my time reading about love. Self love,
relationship love, spiritual love, familial
love, physical love, how to love …
It didn’t seem like my kind of a love story. I
interviewed couples who met on a roof top,
during a blizzard, in a hurricane, in a tall
club, on the underwater hockey team, at dog
beach, in a 12 Step meeting, in their office on
the day the room turned pink …
The heroine of Prison Of My Own
was happily married for thirteen years, had two
children and a perfect marriage. Then one day
her husband murdered his nineteen year old
mistress. Oops.
This is not a “who dunnit.” Within the first
eleven pages you know he did it. Heck, just read
the back cover and you know he did it! So why
did I devour Diane Nichol’s true story about her
Titanic relationship? Her subtitle hooked me. It
reads “A True Story Of Redemption &
Forgiveness.”
Mind boggling! I could not for an instant
imagine how she could forgive him. Can you? I
squirmed just thinking about it. Then, I had to
know. Even more I had to understand the hows,
the whys, and the whats.
The Hows.
How could she not have known he was having an
affair? How did she find out? How did he redeem
himself? The Whys. Why was he having an
affair? Why did he kill his mistress? Why did
she forgive him? The Whats. What about
their kids? What’s next for her? Can this
marriage be saved? Should it?
Ms. Nichol’s book is far from depressing. It is
a surprising, inspiring and courageous work in
progress, just like her life. I snuggled up to
it every night for a week. I cried with her,
rooted for her, for them. I bite my nails, dared
to hope and cried some more. I grew to love her
husband, John. I hoped she would too and cheered
when they remarried.
Diane and John are an awesome couple. They
didn’t meet on the beach or through friends or
on an internet dating site. They met in prison.
The love story I didn’t want to read covered it
all - self love, relationship love, spiritual
love, familial love, physical love, how to love
…
Prison Of My Own
is an awakening. It is an intimate journey that
just gets better and better. It will leave you,
as it did me, waiting for a sequel. And, hoping
Diane will share that with us too.
And, when you are done, do pass it on to a
friend …
Viveca Stone-Berry
is the founder of
Get
Ready For Love! Radio; Co-Author of
What A Dog Loves! and Producer of The
Fatigue Be Gone! Recovery Guide Series.
(c)
2005-2006
www.getreadyforlove.com
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