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Crushed by a violent, alcoholic father, and growing up in a world of street gangs, organized crime, and anti-Semitism. Phillip Cohen somehow navigates dangerous neighborhoods from Chicago to Atlanta and Miami. In his late teens and early twenties, his life has been thrust into a desperate existence, wandering homeless through hippie communes, pursuing hard drugs and strange religions, all in his search for healing and love. Then, just as hope dawns,...

After just three weeks of marriage, I lost my precious husband, Chandler, in a tragic accident and became a widow at twenty-three years old. In those few, but beautiful, days of being a new bride, it felt as though my life was truly just beginning, and as swiftly as that blessing came, it ended as the two who had become one were parted by the thin veil of heaven. Our dreams of many years together came crashing all around me, and I was left with the...