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A Lady in The Red Cape
When I started writing this I had only one reader in mind. That was Mrs. Kanbury my Home Ec teacher. And my quota was a minimum of five pages. Filling five blank pages with words on any topic seemed like peddling from here to the moon on a bicycle. But I got carried away and traveled to Venus.
As it turned out, I wrote twenty-five pages and that includes the pages for the photo of me when I was fat and another page for when I wasn’t anymore. I wish the wasn’t any more photo was the prominent one, but it wasn’t.
As for writing four whole long books… Well, I guess that’s what happens when you get careless and crash into your story with a grocery shopping cart. That would be when I crashed into the lady in the red cape.
I’ve heard it said that all you need to do to start writing a story is to write one true sentence. That might be true to get you started. The only problem is, I didn’t have one true sentence in me before I met Marian Natoli-Cantonia. I didn’t have half a true sentence, nor even a single word that fit the definition.
And furthermore, maybe you can get started with one true sentence, but to write a book and get to where it says The End you need a whole book full of them. Well, at least that’s my view of things.
That brings me to say something about the “truth.” I don’t think many people will like my story. So take this as a warning. You may think you want the truth but I don’t think many people care about it; and some people, it makes them angry. So the odds are pretty good that my story will make you angry; and if you’re the sort of person who goes around looking for safe spaces and support for your lunatic ideas, just put this little baby back on the shelf and shove off.
Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
The story will also make you sad. But that’s how life works. There’s bad days and good ones. There’s disappointments and pleasant surprises. There’s tragedy and hope. There’s love that hurts and love that’s awfully nice. Putting it all down in a nutshell, real life is a lot like a real love story: people love picking up a book or going to a movie, but when it comes to really living it most would prefer to skip over the stress of uncertainty, the doubts of dreaming big, and the long-term sacrifices that lead eventually to happiness, most of the time. Well, some of the time.
Consider that another warning.
If you think the best part of life is achieving your dreams, you’d be wrong. This story isn’t about winning. If you think we’re all created equal and there should be no losers, you’d be wrong again. We’re not and there are, and the odds are you are. Perhaps even Dani is. But that’s not the point. The big crash with the shopping cart and her meeting the lady in the red cape may set Dani on a journey of incredible self-improvement that may lead to good health, wealth and loverly bliss, that is true; but what it really does it set her on a path to discovering who she really is and what’s really important.
Put this book in your shopping cart only if you feel that you yourself are strong enough to weather a storm. Because that’s what it’s about.
—Dani Sentini
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