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Rating : - 20 years later and better than ever!
Her first book, Adventures of a Psychic, was never that good. There was a lot of vagueness regarding her family life. In this book, we now know why Sylvia Browne doesn't talk fondly about her mother as much as her later father. She does try to explain how abusive her mother, Celeste, was to her mostly psychological and verbal and always putting her daughter down as not being pretty enough. I'm sure Celeste had her own demons being that her daughter, Sylvia, and her mother, Ada Coil (who Sylvia fondly remembers being supportive) are both psychics. Maybe Celeste was but she never admitted it. When Sylvia writes about telling her mother that her beloved father was seeing his girlfriend, Virginia, who lived three blocks away, you can only imagine how that must have felt. Besides there is no excuse for Celeste's treatment of Sylvia, maybe she was jealous because she wasn't psychic. Her sister Sharon is mentioned as suffering from her mother's abuse but not as well as her sister. She also writes about getting married at 16 to Joe which was annulled anyway. She writes about the abusive marriage to Gary Dufresne who she hopes has reformed and her marriage to Dal Brown that didn't last long but the friendship and relationship. She doesn't blame her former husband for her financial problems as much as stupidity rather than vindictiveness. Still, I find Sylvia has grown and matured as she approaches her 70s but I also find her to be the candid person who isn't afraid to tell the truth if it hurts. She never sought out fame and fortune but it has come and it is richly deserved because she shares her gifts with us. It's not easy being psychic or paranormal like Sylvia Browne, she has lived a life filled with the same problems like everybody else-marriages, divorces, raising sons as a single mother, bankruptcy, relationships with men, her grandchildren, etc. Sylvia Browne tries to lead a normal life as possible. Just because you're psychic and help people, doesn't mean that you can't help yourself. That's the problem, psychics don't necessarily fair any better than those who are not psychic or paranomal enough. I only wish Sylvia best because I am a fan of hers and always will be. If she helps people without hurting them or fleecing them of their life savings like some people, she is completing her vocation in life. It is because of Sylvia that I feel more comfortable with the paranormal and psychic world which exists before us.