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Pump Up Your Book Presents Vlad Dracula: The Dragon Prince Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Michael Augustyn’s Michael Augustyn book blitz July 21 – August 1!       Title: Vlad Dracula Author: Michael Augustyn Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 286 Genre: Historical Fiction Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON Most of the vast audience attracted to the subject of Dracula know him only in his fictional, one-dimensional form: vampire! Yet the truth behind the historical character–voevode, warlord–of 15th C. Romania is at least as equally fascinating as any contrived account of his supernatural persona.   Vlad Dracula faithfully follows his life story as hostage, fugitive, prince, and prisoner. His principality of Wallachia was caught between two voracious predators: the kingdom of Hungary
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Crystal Lotus Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jinna Van Vliet’s Crystal Lotus book blitz July 1 – 15!     Title: Crystal Lotus Author: Jinna Van Vliet Publisher: Xlibris Pages: 129 Genre: Biography/Autobiography Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON The Harmonic convergence in 1987 launched the awakening of the Mass Consciousness into the realization that human consciousness is rising into a higher frequency. Coined as the Big Shift it created many guidelines to help with this transition process. Crystal Lotus is just one such guide gifted to us by the Divine Feminine Creator Energy through one of her Aspects, the Goddess Quan Yin.     Jinna is giving away a $25 Amazon Gift Card! Terms
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Shutting Up Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Eric Wagner’s Shutting Up book blitz July 1 – 15!   Title: Shutting Up Author: Eric Wagner Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 228 Genre: Business/Economics Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON Hey, manager: please shut up already! Too many new managers, often promoted from the best of the front-line workers, lack the basic ability to interact effectively—speaking when they should be listening, and listening… well, not much. And when it comes to more advanced skills like improving worker performance, maximizing productivity, handling customers, and driving real success with their products, all bets are off. With no real background or training in management skills, today’s managers—even with
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Ripples in Opperman’s Pond Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Doug Zipes’ Ripples in Opperman’s Pond book blitz July 1 – 15!   Title: Ripples in Opperman’s Pond Author: Doug Zipes Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 288 Genre: Thriller Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON Identical twins Dorian and Daniel Sloane grow up inseparable, sharing the same tubes of toothpaste as children and their lives as adults. Loyalty proven many times, they have been saving each other since the day Dorian rescued Daniel from drowning in Opperman’s Pond. Now, with Dorian as head of a multinational pharmaceutical company and Daniel as an innovative cardiologist volunteering in Africa, the brothers come together once again. A devastating midair
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Way to Financial Independence Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Pearl Iseabell’s The Way to Financial Independence book blitz July 1 – 15! Title: The Way to Financial Independence Author: Pearl Iseabell Roberts Publisher: Xlibris Pages: 48 Genre: Business/Economics Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON The way to financial independence is like building a house. You can’t build unless you have a solid foundation. You need to have the desire, the determination, and the goals to become self-sufficient. Be confident in yourself and be motivated. Let’s name some of the building materials that you will need: education, as much as you can get, and the learning process never stops. As I converse with people,
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Pump Up Your Book Presents From the Heart Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Randolph Baltimore’s From My Heart book blitz July 1 – 15!   Title: From My Heart Author: Randolph Baltimore Publisher: Xlibris Pages: 34 Genre: Poetry Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON “From My Heart” is my first publication, my labor of love I have worked on for many years. It is the fruition of the many trials, tribulations, ups and downs that life has dealt me over the years. May you be inspired and enlightened by the words on these pages.   Randolph is giving away a $25 Amazon Gift Card! Terms & Conditions: By entering the giveaway, you are confirming you are at
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Signs of a Serial Killer Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Crystal Clary’s Signs of a Serial Killer book blitz July 1 – 15!   Title: Signs of a Serial Killer Author: Crystal Clary Publisher: AuthorHouse Pages: 198 Genre: True Crime Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON My friend Sue and I had spent so much time together we felt like sisters. We had made so many plans for our future, as young girls do. We would graduate from school, get married, have a career, children and we would be lifelong friends sharing those moments together. Part of that dream had already come true. Sue was a year older than myself. I went to her
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Blade of the Amazon Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Eric Fluellen’s Blade of the Amazon book blitz July 1 – 15!     Title: Blade of the Amazon Author: Eric Fluellen Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 212 Genre: Fantasy Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON There has been war off and on between the nation’s of Nadal and the Amazons warriors for more time than any either side could hope remember, from the first ill suited word, to open conflict of small groups, and the destruction of villages. to finally war being declared. This devastation would go on for years and years would turn into centuries, and centuries would flow into millennia, During this time
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Secrets, Sex and Lies Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Claire Miles’ Secrets, Sex, and Lies book blitz July 1 – 15!     Title: Secrets, Sex, and Lies Author: Claire Miles Publisher: Partridge Publishing Pages: 360 Genre: Romantic Suspense Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON “Twelve years ago, a predator terrorized Detective Denise Davidson’s community. In the space of a few months, three young women vanished, and the case remains infuriatingly unsolved. Years of intensive police investigations have yielded no information, no hope—and no killer brought to justice. Although fear gripped the community just after the killings, time has healed some wounds. Many residents have moved on with their lives, and the names
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Pump Up Your Book Presents In Bed with the Competition Virtual Book Publicity Tour – Win Prizes!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you J.K. Coi’s In Bed with the Competition virtual book tour June 30 – July 11! ABOUT IN BED WITH THE COMPETITION Title: In Bed with the Competition Genre: Contemporary Romance Author: J.K. Coi Publisher: Entangled Indulgence Language: English Pages: 181 Format: Ebook This rivalry is too hot for the tropics… Elizabeth Carlson and Ben Harrison used to be friends, coworkers…and almost lovers. But that was before Ben proposed mixing business with pleasure. Elizabeth refuses to lose her heart to a hotshot tycoon with a cutthroat, take-no-prisoners attitude. Not with the prospect of starting her own company at stake. Driven to succeed in all areas of
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Fair Dinkum Economy Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Robert Gibson’s The Fair Dinkum Economy book blitz July 1 – 15!   Title: The Fair Dinkum Economy Author: Robert Gibson Publisher: Trafford Pages: 170 Genre: Business/Economics Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON “The Fair Dinkum Economy offers an easy-to-read, easy-to-understand economic guide for everyone. It explores the recent decline in the living standards of developed countries and negative effects of the swing in the balance of power to the Asian and Indian regions. Author Robert Gibson maintains that the way this economic change is happening will not benefit any country. What’s more, there is an alternate path we can take that could lead
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Pump Up Your Book Presents A Kiss For You Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Dianne Powell-Edding’s A Kiss for You! book blitz July 1 – 15!       Title: A Kiss for You Author: Dianne Powell-Eddings Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 92 Genre: Poetry Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON This book of poems is targeted for ages 13 year olds to Adults. Most women find comfort in A Kiss for You!  Between each page Is encouraging thoughts of wisdom, unity, awesome power, bringing nations, communities, families and young people together to share in an awesome experience of A kiss for You  is sweeter than honey on a honeycomb. This book also includes my true love story about My
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Pump Up Your Book Presents My Angelic Journey Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Evangelist Patricia Kinard’s My Angelic Journey book blitz July 1 – 15!     Title: My Angelic Journey Author: Evangelist Patricia Kinard Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 148 Genre: Religion/Inspirational Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON For many years, evangelist Patricia Kinard lived a life of illusions. She soon realized that life wasn’t about her plans, but rather those of the Father, who defines a purpose for every situation. In My Angelic Journey, Kinard narrates her journey after she discovered the true purpose God had for her. In this memoir, she details her transformation from a child with a measure of faith into a teenager with
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Widows 101 Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Susan Barber’s Widows 101 book blitz July 1 – 15!   Title: Widows 101 Author: Susan Barber Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 108 Genre: Self-help Format: Kindle Purchase at AMAZON Becoming a widow isn’t like becoming a wife. Becoming a wife requires major planning. But becoming a widow is often a surprise, and even with advance planning some people are still stunned. It’s difficult to prepare for widowhood. In Widows 101, author Susan Barber uses her personal experience with her husband’s death to provide practical tips for surviving the death of a spouse. Delivered with a gentle, lighthearted approach, Widows 101 touches upon core elements
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Maverick’s Red Hot Reunion Virtual Book Publicity Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Christine Glover’s The Maverick’s Red Hot Reunion virtual book tour June 30 – July 11! ABOUT THE MAVERICK’S RED HOT REUNION   Title: The Maverick’s Red Hot Reunion Genre: Contemporary Romance Author: Christine Glover Publisher: Entangled Indulgence Language: English Pages: 161 Format: Ebook Corporate Maverick Zach Tanner returns to North Carolina to rebuild his dying friend’s resort. He’s got the money, the power, and the will to transform Sweetbriar Springs into a premier spa for the glamorous, but he doesn’t count on the woman he once loved…and lost…to handle the construction contract. Zach thought he’d buried his desire for Kennedy five years ago. He
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Engaging the Earl Virtual Book Publicity Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Diana Quincy’s Engaging the Earl virtual book tour June 9 – June 20! ABOUT ENGAGING THE EARL     Title: Engaging the Earl Genre: Historical Romance Author: Diana Quincy Publisher: Entangled Scandalous Language: English Pages: 211 Format: Ebook Vivacious Lady Katherine Granville is the toast of the ton, but society’s most eligible miss secretly yearns for her childhood love, an untitled loner who vanished long ago after her father forbade their marriage. After years abroad, the dark and brooding Edward Stanhope returns to England a changed man. No longer a second son with no prospects, his battlefield strategies have won him an earldom. His
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Interview with Cheri DeGroot, author of Dear Friend

ABOUT DEAR FRIEND     Title: Dear Friend Genre: Non-fiction humanities Author: Cheri DeGroot Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 60 Language: English ISBN – 978-1-44016-146-9   Are you looking for a way to meet new people from all over the world, make new friends, and help others? The solution is simple and affordable—become a pen pal. In Dear Friend, author Cheri DeGroot shares the joys and rewards of becoming a pen pal and provides tips on sharing friendships through handwritten letters. Based on fifty-three years of personal experience as a pen pal, DeGroot details how her lifelong passion for pen palling began and how her friendships with people from all over the United
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Race: My Story & Humanity’s Bottom Line Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lauren Joichin Nile’s Race: My Story & Humanity’s Bottom Line book blitz June 2-13!       Title: Race: My Story & Humanity’s Bottom Line Author: Lauren Joichin Nile Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 539 Genre: Biography/Memoir Format: Kindle Purchase at AMAZON Lauren Joichin Nile introduces what she believes is humanity’s racial bottom line with a compelling account of her personal experiences growing up in 1950’s and 60’s segregated New Orleans. In so doing, she posits what she believes is humanity’s universal racial story. Lauren explains how starting out from Southern Africa, fully formed human beings, over thousands of years, walked out of Africa, populated
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Just an Accident Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Amy Montgomery’s Just an Accident book blitz June 2-13!       Title: Just an Accident Author: Amy Montgomery Publisher: AuthorHouse Pages: 229 Genre: Biography/Memoir Format: Kindle Purchase at AMAZON There was no blood at the scene, not even a cut on his body. Yet on May 25, 1999, when the top of a massive beech tree snapped off and slammed into 33-year-old, Adirondack logger Scott Remington, his bones exploded. The terrain was unforgiving and the area too remote for cell phones. So the fact that medics reached him is a miracle. So is the aftermath of a freak accident that felt like
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Ocean Whirled Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Sam Webb’s Ocean Whirled book blast June 2-13!   Title: Ocean Whirled Author: Sam Webb Publisher: Xlibris Pages: 282 Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy Format: Kindle Purchase at AMAZON “An alien underwater race has invaded the ocean and is gradually wiping out every creature in it. The N’harmae (the carers of the ocean) are the main target of this alien race and are nearly extinct. Penure a young N’harmae who has been brought up by the dolphins must save his ocean world from doom and he can’t take on this task alone!””       Sam Webb has always been fascinated by the ocean and
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Making the Invisible Visible Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Making the Invisible Visible book blast June 2-13!     Title: Making the Invisible Visible Author: A. Taylor, M.J. Hardman, C. Wright Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 172 Genre: Words/Language/Grammar Format: Kindle Purchase at AMAZON All that is human is mediated through language. And because we learned the process of being human in a culture as we learned the language of that culture, much that we learned remains invisible to us. But even though invisible, it guides what and how we learn and remember, our perceptions, our behaviors, including communicative behaviors. Throughout our lives, that early language/culture learning affects us, all too often without our
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Top Ten Best-Ever Healthy Weight-Loss Tips Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Elle Eriksson’s Top Ten Best-Ever Healthy Weight-Loss Tips book blast June 2-13!   Title: Top Ten Best-Ever Healthy Weight-Loss Tips Author: Elle Eriksson, RHN Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 122 Genre: Health and Wellness Format: Kindle Purchase at AMAZON We all know that being slim does not always mean being healthy. In Top Ten Best-Ever Healthy Weight-Loss Tips, Elle Eriksson offers you sensible, effective ways to shed those unwanted pounds while improving overall health and wellbeing. Blending personal wisdom with professional training and experience, Elle shares her insight and provides strategies for achieving and maintaining a healthy weight. Also included in these top ten tips
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Wonder-N-Wandering in a Zoo Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you JR Holbrook’s Wonder-N-Wandering in the Zoo book blast June 2-13!     Title: Wonder-N-Wandering in a Zoo Author: JR Holbrook Publisher: AuthorHouse Pages: 29 Genre: Kids Format: Kindle Purchase at AMAZON My name is JR Holbrook, and I am a 2012 USA BEST BOOK AWARDS finalist and a 2013 San Francisco Book Awards honorable mention, as well as, other credits. I am also a graduate of Sullivan University, graduating in 2008. My book Wonder-N-Wandering in a Zoo is my third book, and it tells of the many adventures a group of teenagers get in wandering further from home in what is to be
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Creative Mindpower Techniques Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Dr. Frank Lea’s Creative Mindpower Techniques book blitz June 2-13!     Title: Creative Mindpower Techniques Author: Dr. Frank Lea Publisher: Trafford Pages: 232 Genre: Health Format: Kindle Purchase at AMAZON This book offers simple yet extremely powerful and effective ways to help people overcome the many conditions and issues that conventional medicine can only suppress with drugs.     Dr. Frank W. Lea, DD, originator of the powerful and effective CREATIVE MINDPOWER TECHNIQUES which uniquely includes using the incredible power of the mind to heal the body, has 20 years` experience as a Professional trainer in Advanced Hypnotherapy, Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP)
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Amanda, Perfectly Made Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Laurel Rausch Greshel’s Amanda, Perfectly Made book blast June 2-13!     Title: Amanda, Perfectly Made Author: Laurel Rausch Greshel Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 211 Genre: Religion/Inspirational Format: Kindle Purchase at AMAZON On August 1, 1983, Laurel Greshel’s world changed forever after a phone call from her doctor. After receiving word that her unborn baby had serious health issues, Laurel was overwhelmed. As she and her husband, Ted, struggled to accept the diagnosis that their daughter, Amanda, would be born with spina bifida, they had to slowly learn to say goodbye to “normal” and embrace each of their tiny newborn’s accomplishments. Without any instruction book
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Peace and Love Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Leland Bedford’s Peace and Love book blast June 2-13!     Title: Peace and Love Author: Leland Bedford Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 114 Genre: Religion/Inspirational Format: Kindle Purchase at AMAZON Peace & Love is a celebration of truth like none before, and like none that will be after, truly one of a kind! The selections within are a reflection of thought that is like a seed to the brain of every man, woman, and child, to be watered by life, and grow into an existence where love is the end result of new found peace. The lie has no home with in the pages of
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Dear Mom and Dad, You Don’t Know Me But…Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Georgia Lee McGowen’s Dear Mom and Dad book blitz June 2-13!     Title: Dear Mom and Dad Author: Georgia Lee McGowen Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 290 Genre: Biography Format: Kindle Purchase at AMAZON Much has been written both about and by people who feel they were assigned the wrong body at conception, exploring the struggles and too often the tragedies that result from that mismatch of nature. Very little has been written, however, to chronicle the lifelong struggle of people to understand and come to terms with two distinct sets of emotions, one male and one female – a single soul, at times
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Unnerving Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Karen J. Gallahue’s Unnerving book blast June 2-13!     Title: Unnerving Author: Karen J. Gallahue Publisher: AuthorHouse Pages: 231 Genre: Suspense/Thriller Format: Kindle Purchase at AMAZON “You’re telling me that Ralph Kendrick, the bogeyman of my worst nightmares has escaped from jail?” Eyes wide and unbelieving, Fiona Morgan asked the detective standing at her front door. She reached for the door frame to steady her wobbly legs. When she was ten years old, Fiona Morgan and two Girl Scout friends stumbled across Ralph Kendrick murdering a young woman at a Minneapolis park. At his trial when he was convicted of Rose Wilson’s
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Soul of the City Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you John McMillan’s The Soul of the City book blast June 2-13!   Title: The Soul of the City Author: John McMillan Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 310 Genre: Literary Fiction Format: Kindle Purchase at AMAZON The Soul of the City is a tale of two cities, Belfast and London, in the heady, liberating days of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Young Jim Mitchell moves through a succession of jobs, girlfriends and apartments in the quest for personal fulfillment and his dream of becoming a writer in the face of often dispiriting circumstances. There is the trauma of his affair with Maureen, an older, married
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Mothers With Broken Hearts Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Monica Shipley’s Mothers with Broken Hearts book blast June 2-13! Title: Mothers with Broken Hearts Author: Monica Shipley Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 108 Genre: Self Help Format: Kindle Purchase at AMAZON Death is a part of life, but for a mother who has suffered the death of a child, life can suddenly become unbearable. She finds herself completely shattered—knocked to her knees and unable to get up. Her pain is horrible, beyond anything she has ever felt or experienced before. In Mothers with Broken Hearts, author Monica Shipley tells the heartrending story of the suicide of her son, Jeffrey, and the unexpected miracle that
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