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are not in vain, they never were. They have created good karma. In the dream, numerology

shows us that though those in power have betrayed those who have put faith in them,

equilibrium will be restored.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Laura D. Bellmay is a retired fundraising and

development consultant. She began writing for the love

of the craft after her first cancer diagnosis in 1996. She

won the “Best of Letters to The Editor” from The

Hartford Courant in 1991. The Collinsville Axe Factory

Players hosted a reading of “Holy Communion”, her

essay about growing up Catholic in 1950s “baby

boomer” housing in Foxon, Connecticut. Laura was featured in a series of articles in The Uxbridge

Times in 2006 and her essay, “Into the Garden” a short story about her coming to terms with her

mastectomy after a recurrence of breast cancer, was published in the 2011, Winter Issue of Barefoot

Review.

Laura shared her story “Tracks,” during an Open Mic Night in Collinsville, March 2015 and in April 2015

her story, “A Call from the Edge” was published in the “Fragile Ongoing” Edition of Dark Matter:

Women: Witnessing, Issue #2. She lives in Canton, Connecticut on a stretch of The Farmington River

protected as “wild and scenic.” She has learned with gratitude how to live in harmony with breast

cancer.

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