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Lisa Dekis

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in Trenton, The United States

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Classics, Children's, Spirituality

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Lisa Dekis (formerly Wasko) was born in 1960 in Trenton, NJ, where she enjoyed watching coal trucks deliver black rocks to basements, seeing the front door, letter flap open and the mail fall into the house, loved to watch the pizza man toss dough, and ran all the way to the corner store for penny candy. She still remembers the first time she lied to her mother, telling her she had to go to the bathroom instead of taking a nap - and contemplated pouring some Johnson and Johnson baby shampoo into the toilet to make it look like, well pee. A wild imagination ensued. As perhaps did analysis, As the fear of and overflowing toilet of bubbles hung over her. Rumor was that her paternal grandparents were rum-runners during prohibition - and hid the ...more

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The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

by Eckhart Tolle

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“The summer brings new and unwanted orange freckles to my face. I hate my hair and my skin...kids call me freckle-face strawberry. My hair is cherry. Who wants that?”
― Lisa Dekis

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“We're assigned to children who are doomed.”
― Lisa Dekis, Frankie's Angel: A Child's Tale of Loss and Recovery

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“You were always an annoyingly holy child, Frankie. What the hell was wrong with you?”
― Lisa Dekis, Frankie's Angel: A Child's Tale of Loss and Recovery

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“You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.”
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“What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed

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“Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't. ”
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“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
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