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Goodreads asked Alayne Smith:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Alayne Smith Old Luella has made three predictions for Ellen's life. Each of the three predictions springs from an event in my life. The prediction, Ellen foils a dictator, involves Ellen going to Cuba to bring back her damaged Aunt Zia during the Bay of Pigs. My aunt Zena married a Cuban sugar cane plantation owner and lived in Cuba prior to Castro coming to power.

Ellen finds the soldier...Ellen is searching for information on Jonas Stockman, a revolutionary war soldier, buried on plantation land where she lives. No one knows who Jonas was and why he was buried on Callander plantation land. My grandfather owned a plantation, much like the one described in Ellen and the Three Predictions. A revolutionary war soldier was buried on my grandfather's plantation land. I loved to visit the grave, wondering who he was.

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